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This page contains unmarked spoilers for the previous installments, Wasteland and Wasteland 2.Wasteland 3 is the third entry of the Wasteland series. It was developed by inXile Entertainment and published by Deep Silver, released on August 28th, 2020 for Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and PC via Steam and GOG.It's been a rough few years for the Desert Rangers. While Team Echo succeeded in saving the world from the genocidal Cochise AI, it came at the cost of nuking Ranger Citadel, where the AI had hidden itself away for over a decade. With their strategic center of operations obliterated and much of their senior staff dead, the Rangers have been struggling to deal with the famine and drought brought on by the AI's attacks on key infrastructure.But salvation may have just come knocking. A transmission has come through from the northeast, beyond the deserts of Arizona and New Mexico. The sender? A warlord known as the Patriarch, ruler of Colorado. He's heard of the Rangers' plight from refugees arriving in his territory, and he has an offer — help him capture his rebellious children, who seek to overthrow him and plunge Colorado into chaos, and in return he'll supply all the food and water Arizona could ever need.An advance team was sent to negotiate, led by Colonel Angela Deth, the last surviving member of the famed Team Alpha. She confirmed his story, but soon afterwards went MIA. In response, Ranger Command has sent an expeditionary force, Team November, to reinforce the Patriarch's forces and find Colonel Deth's team. But soon after arriving, an ambush by some heavily-armed cultists reduces Team November from a full convoy to a single squad. Now, it's up to you to lead the expedition, recruit new Rangers, and help re-establish law and order in these frozen wastes. No pressure, rookie...Wasteland 3 has two expansions. The first, titled Battle for Steeltown and released in June 2021, takes place in the Patriarch's Steel factory to the southwest of Colorado Springs, where problems in the factory have multiplied and stopped the shipment of various alloys. The second, titled Cult of the Holy Detonation and released in September 2021, takes the Rangers to Cheyenne Mountain following a member of the Hundred Families desperate to solve Colorado's power problems. | |
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Retired Badass | |
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Retired Badass: The Patriarch and Sergeant Greatski mostly just sit back at their bases not doing much but it's clear from the latter's stories that they personally led the charge against the various raider gangs in their younger years. | |
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Mission Control Is Off Its Meds | |
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Mission Control Is Off Its Meds: Most of Aspen is spent with Vic taunting the Rangers via radio and gloating over all the deaths they failed to stop, and occasionally snapping at his Breather minions for failing to kill you (or shrugging off their deaths with a quip). | |
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Monumental Damage Resistance | |
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Monumental Damage Resistance: The Gippers' base of operations is located in what used to be the Colorado State Capitol, rechristened "the Western White House", which looks to be in pretty good shape... despite being only a short distance away from a gigantic, radioactive blast crater (presumably, where the nuke that hit Denver went off). | |
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Can't Kill You, Still Need You | |
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Can't Kill You, Still Need You: Killing the Patriarch's children is extremely tempting, especially Victory after what he's done, but the deal with the Patriarch stipulates that they have to be brought back alive. | |
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Creator Cameo | |
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Creator Cameo: If the name of local don Faran Brygo sounds familiar, that's because it's a Spoonerism of the name of inXile honcho Bryan Fargo, a bit of Self-Deprecation that dates back to the original Wasteland. In that game, Brygo was the boss of the real Vegas, a history which he can discuss with the Rangers. Faran's daughter Marie Brygo also appeared as one of the minor recruits outside of the Citadel in 2. The generic privates who come to staff Ranger HQ are named after the inXile devs who worked on the game. | |
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Brotherhood of Funny Hats | |
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Brotherhood of Funny Hats: Hinted at. One of the objects left in a toaster at the Godfisher Wind Farm includes a gleaming toaster-shaped helmet. It's hinted that the toasters of the wasteland are being deliberately seeded with artifacts by an Ancient Conspiracy in the form of the Toaster Repairmen. | |
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Bio-Armor | |
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Bio-Armor: Highly advanced verchitin armor. Wearing it makes you look like a humanoid lobster on the outside but it's stamped with US military seals and the lenses on the interior of the helmet apparently aren't much different from regular power armor. It's one of several oddities found in the Toaster Repair Academy. | |
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Heel–Face Door-Slam | |
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Heel–Face Door-Slam: One Godfisher recruit who gathered sacrifices given to them by the Patriarch decides to abandon his group and finds love with a woman, regretting all he's done. Unfortunately for him the loved ones of his victims don't care and want to kill him for what he's done. It's up to the player whether to stop them (violently or not) or decide they have the right to revenge even if it means the death of his innocent lover. | |
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Religion of Evil | |
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Religion of Evil: The Dorsey Clan dress up their murder, torture, and cannibalism in the guise of a pseudo-Christian prophecy about a third Deluge to follow the Deluge of Water (the Biblical Flood) and the Deluge of Fire (the nuclear Apocalypse), this one a Deluge of Blood which they intend to bring about themselves. Ironically, they dress like pagans during the middle ages, with the animal heads and pelts they wear. The ascetic, dreamy Godfishers' whole religion seems to be a very twisted version of tengriism. Starting out as hippies and stoners, they believe the gods have abandoned mankind, and seek to lure them back — by hacking off their captives' limbs and tying their still-living torsos to kites made of flayed skin which are then flown in the freezing Colorado winds, in the hopes that the sky gods will accept these offerings and return. | |
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Accent Slip-Up | |
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Accent Slip-Up: Digging through McTavish's shop will let you find a tape of him practicing his Scottish accent, occasionally chiding himself in an American accent for not doing it well enough. | |
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Graceful Loser | |
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Graceful Loser: Victory Buchanan, surprisingly enough. If you arrest him and refuse his offer to join your team he just shrugs his shoulders and goes back without a fight. | |
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Gone Horribly Wrong | |
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Gone Horribly Wrong: In a side quest you finally corner Dorsey leader Nelius Dorsey, and get the full story about the origins of the clan that bears his name. Turns out that his family was wiped out for being on the wrong end of a political power play. Rather than a simple coup, as the Patriarch says, Dorsey was actually pro-democracy and wanted to institute elections — but the Patriarch wasn't ready to give up power. Nelius managed to escape from a bloodbath led by none other than Percival Wesson, Lucia's father, and once outside the city, Dorsey and his extended family rallied the survivors to rebuild. But they lost their way, forced to survive among the other plains gangs, and as the clan started to talk about nothing but vengeance against Buchanan and bringing about the Deluge of Blood, Nelius lost all but nominal control of them, with the ambush at the beginning serving as a desperate, last-ditch attack to cut off reinforcements for the Patriarch against Liberty's advice. He even admits that yes he should have just talked to the Rangers if the Rangers say as much. It's obvious that he just wants the whole thing over with, even if you execute him on the spot or arrest him for a more formal execution. | |
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Multiple Endings | |
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Multiple Endings: Killing the Patriarch before the endgame, killing the Patriarch in the opening minutes of the game (which is only possible by cheating), or joining forces with his daughter will all end the game prematurely and cut off several of the usual outcomes. While attempting to transfer Morningstar's consciousness/remove his weapons system, if you stop halfway through to try and mitigate the pain without a high enough Nerd Stuff, you set off the nuclear power system and blow up everything in a mile-wide radius. Game over. The finale plays out in largely the same areas, but who you're fighting changes dramatically based on your decisions, starting with whether you side with the Patriarch or Angela Deth, heavily impacted by whether or not you allied with Ironclad Cordite and if you chose to bring the gangs along, and then by your reputations with the various factions of Colorado Springs. | |
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Violation of Common Sense | |
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Violation of Common Sense: Recruiting the above Token Evil Teammates on any playthrough where you're not going rogue yourself. While Cordite shares a mutual goal with the Rangers, Fishlips is a cannibal gang leader who attacks you on your first meeting and Victory Buchannan is the Wasteland equivalent of the Joker who you meet after he massacres a hotel full of people and sends his entire gang to either kill you or be killed. Why exactly would anyone let the last two into their party? | |
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Achievement Mockery | |
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Achievement Mockery: There are several of these achievements. "No Show" requires you to fail the prologue level. "Back in the Sack" requires you to catch every STD available. "No Time for Distractions" allows you to completely fail a mission by not saving either group that requires saving. "Oops" requires you to down one of your team members with friendly fire... yeah, the game likes this trope. | |
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Anti-Radiation Drug | |
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Anti-Radiation Drug: No-Glo is used to purge the body of any radiation and all resulting mutations (though some mutations actually have beneficial side-effects, such as enhanced senses or hyper-intelligence). | |
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I Own This Town | |
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I Own This Town: Colorado Springs is the Patriarch's fiefdom. Thanks to the backing of the Hundred Families and the Marshals, his word is law throughout the town. He's turned the Pioneer Museum into a museum to his own history and victories, melted down the statue of city founder General William Palmer for a statue to himself, and claimed the Broadmoor hotel as his personal palace. | |
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All Crimes Are Equal | |
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All Crimes Are Equal: Almost all crimes in Colorado Springs are punished with the pillory, which is effectively a death sentence due to the cold temperature in the Colorado Wasteland. This can be averted by the Rangers; the Rangers can arrest people and send them to Ranger HQ to get locked up safely, instead of sending them to the Marshals. Even if you do let Sheriff Daisy have them, how long you stay in the pillories depends on your crime. One character survived being in them for a few hours but lost his nose and ears. The Magistrate also mentions that minor crimes like drunkenness and public misconduct are punished with a stay in the Marshall's lock-up. | |
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Aborted Arc | |
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Aborted Arc: Angela Deth's disappearance in Wasteland 2. There was a lot of mystery surrounding it and it's treated as something of a Sequel Hook. However, Wasteland 3 puts the kibosh on it by stating that she survived and made her way back to Arizona in the time between games, only to disappear again for completely unrelated reasons during an expedition to Colorado. | |
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Ironic Name | |
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Ironic Name: None of the Patriarch's children live up to the lofty hopes their names once symbolized: Liberty is a would-be conqueror who cares nothing for freedom, Victory is a murdering psychopath who takes sadistic pleasure in overturning his father's triumphs and making a mockery of all that the Hundred Families have built, and Valor is a spoiled, whiny coward. The Patriarch himself is, despite his name, by all accounts a terrible father with three dead wives and children who all hate him. | |
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Game-Breaker | |
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Using an explosive or sniper to start a battle is no longer a Game-Breaker. Sure, you get the opening salvo, but that character will have the action points removed on their turn essentially just treating them as having taken their turn early. Also, only ONE character can shoot first in this manner, preventing the ability to simply have seven Rangers all shoot at the same enemy to down them before battle begins. The main advantage of doing this is that it guarantees your party will go first- this is still advantageous, but it's not as overwhelming as it was in the previous game. | |
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Death of Personality | |
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Death of Personality: Happens to Valor if you let the Reagan AI download into his brain to use him as a meatsuit. In Steeltown this can happen to the eight linked synths that comprise the Computation Engine if the Rangers choose to use the degausser on them to erase their memories. The synths themselves liken it to death and will try to stop it. | |
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Failure Is the Only Option | |
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Failure Is the Only Option: In the early part of the game, Liberty Buchanan will ambush Team November as they travel the world map. You're offered several options when you realize you're driving into an ambush, but she'll catch you no matter what you choose. Thankfully, she and her giant robots just want to talk. | |
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Knight Errant | |
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Knight Errant: Choosing the "Paladin" background for your ranger implies you're one. | |
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Shoot the Dog | |
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Shoot the Dog: Comes up for both the player and NPCs. The Patriarch in particular is noted for having had to make "hard decisions" by various characters. He knowingly gave up citizens to torture, slavery, and murder at the hands of gangs like the Godfishers and made a deal with the Scar Collectors to give them money and supplies in exchange for not raiding his lands. Cruel, but as he states what else could he have done? The cost of continued war was too high. The player can be forced into a few as well. Save the lives of farmers at the expense of the caravaneers (and their cargo of power armor and the Patriarch's favor), or vice-versa? Or maybe arrest an old woman while her family watches to ensure she can't smuggle refugees into the city and drain the already stringent resources but also leave said refugees with nowhere else to go? The latter in particular will allow one to peacefully transition power in the ending and avoid a bloodbath, which involves her own sons if you side with the Patriarch. | |
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Slavery Is a Special Kind of Evil | |
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Slavery Is a Special Kind of Evil: While the wasteland is already a nasty place the gangs that practice slavery are considered far and above worse than all the rest, including the Godfishers and the Scar Collectors. Finding out the Patriarch sent some of his people to said gangs to be used as sacrifices and slaves shocks both Lucia and Kwon. | |
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Modular Epilogue | |
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Modular Epilogue: The ending slides tally up your various decisions and show you the consequences of your actions in a sketchy pen-and-ink style... complete with a song! The slides and narration change drastically depending on your choices and reputation levels. Open battle or Talking the Monster to Death are both options for the Final Boss, whether that's the Patriarch or Angela Deth, and the reasons you give for fighting as well as how you deal with them once they're defeated can also change the ending. You can usually spare or execute the Patriarch, but if you brought Cordite and the gangs to CO Springs and told him you were only in it for "all you could grab", Buchanan is so consumed with despair at having lost everything he's built that he shoots himself. You can only avoid fighting Angela Deth with Hard Ass 10 check, and you can only convince the Patriarch to spare her with Kiss Ass 10; otherwise you're forced to fight her to the death. If you brought the gangs with you, you also have the choice of whether or not to let them plunder the city, which determines whether or not Colorado survives and rebuilds. After all is said and done, Team November is always given a choice of whether to return to Arizona, stay in Colorado and rebuild, or set out east on their own. If you brought Cordite along when you took down the Patriarch, he'll offer to let you join his army as well. | |
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Easter Egg | |
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Easter Egg: With a mixture of luck and driving around in a specific spot, the Rangers can get their hands on a mysterious case containing a Lancer. | |
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Revolvers Are Just Better | |
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Revolvers Are Just Better: Generally, revolvers do higher damage compared to semi-automatic pistols of the same tier, which is balanced by a tendency to hold less ammo, cost more AP to reload, and/or use rarer higher-caliber ammo types. You can also add expanded magazines to them, which removes their one weakness, while the strongest revolver in the game uses the much cheaper and easily found spikes instead of .38 ammo. | |
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Inadequate Inheritor | |
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Inadequate Inheritor: Absolutely none of the Patriarch's children are fit to rule. Liberty is a power-hungry tyrant who wants to enslave or kill everyone, Victory is an Axe-Crazy sociopath and mass murderer, and Valor is a whiny, immature Small Name, Big Ego Manchild that demands respect and can't see when he's being manipulated. Doubly so since the Patriarch comments that Victory was meant to be his heir, meaning that he would've been giving Colorado to the Joker. | |
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Limit Break | |
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Limit Break: The new Strike meter is charged by each successful attack, and at 100% a character can use a limit break specific to their equipped weapon type. The meter is per character and not per weapon, so it is possible to charge the meter with one weapon, then switch to another. Small Arms Perks combined with their low AP cost tend to make shotguns and especially pistols good at charging Strike quickly. | |
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More Dakka | |
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There is no longer one build that is simply superior all the time. In Wasteland 2, the best possible team was a squad entirely decked out in Assault Rifles, save for a single Sniper whose job it was to initiate combat. Or, which was even more broken, perform a volley salvo of burst fire from all those assault rifles on a single, tough enemy, easily killing it without any chance to even react, not to mention retaliate. In this game, while Assault Rifles and Sniper Rifles still have their solid place, they are just one option among many. | |
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Awesome, but Impractical | |
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Awesome, but Impractical: Some of the highest-ranked weapons such as the Lancer assault rifle or Ray Tracer sniper rifle. The former has less damage than the SOCOM rifle and fires only three times versus Atom Smasher or Daisy's Rifle's five shots. The latter is the strongest sniper rifle in the game but costs a whopping 7 AP to fire, meaning that it's much more practical to get the lower-ranked Eliminator since it can fire twice with a high enough Coordination and the right quirks/utility items. | |
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Endless Winter | |
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Endless Winter: As the site of Cheyenne Mountain and NORAD command, Colorado was the target of plenty of nukes. This caused freak weather conditions which left the mountanous region in constant winter for over a century and counting. | |
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Succession Crisis | |
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Succession Crisis: Discussed. All of the Patriarch's children are violently unhinged (Victory and Liberty) at worst, and spoiled and ineffective (Valor) at best, and thus he hasn't chosen an heir. This has made some people worry, since he's at least in his 70's by now, and is suffering from palsy which will degrade him physically and mentally in as little as three years. Siding with the Patriarch and staying in Colorado implies that the Rangers will pick his heir when he dies, while leaving Colorado ends with the note that when he dies Colorado will be fractured and the Rangers will be alone again. Subverted if you own the Steeltown DLC and end it with Markham in charge, as an additional slide adds that Markham is guaranteed to be the Patriarch's successor. The November Reigns ending, meanwhile, has the Patriarch either imprisoned or exiled with the Rangers taking over as a peacekeeping group while the people govern themselves. | |
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Huge Holographic Head | |
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The Reagan AI's appearance as a polygonal Huge Holographic Head on a screen, his rainbow-tinted wireframe/shifting multicolored screen-saver background, and his constant distorted robot stammering are all references to the title character of Max Headroom, another '80s standby. | |
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Scary Black Man | |
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Scary Black Man: Ironclad Cordite is a fearsome raider Cyborg with a shotgun arm and a plan to unite the raider gangs so he can carve out an empire from the savage plains of Kansas. | |
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Beef Gate | |
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Beef Gate: Exploration on the world map is gated by your vehicle's radiation resistance. Try to go too far too quickly and your squad will start taking massive damage from the ambient radiation. You'll either need a high level chassis or the Morningstar AI coupled with a purpose-built utility upgrade to survive the Eastern Plains. | |
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Revenge Myopia | |
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Erastus Dorsey despises the Rangers for killing his brother in the intro and swears vengeance on them. The fact that he massacred your team and you were just defending yourself doesn't seem to register. | |
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Even Evil Has Standards | |
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Even Evil Has Standards: Despite giving up his own citizens to the Godfishers in exchange for not being raided the Patriarch seems to avoid slavery, unlike the numerous gangs and cults, and it's implied to be disallowed in his territory. When Liberty first confronts the party they can ask her about her siblings. While she calls Valor spineless and an easy puppet for the Gippers, she sounds legitimately disgusted by Victory, calling him a depraved child, and telling you to shoot him as soon as you find him. | |
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Level Scaling | |
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Level Scaling: Enemies, in particular those from the DLC, and some NPCs scale to character levels. This includes all your animal companions and NPC followers, which not only keeps them viable in the late game but in some cases makes them more powerful than your characters. The honey badger, if encountered at level 25, will have over 17,000 Hit Points, giving it more HP than all the Optional Bosses in the game combined. | |
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Kick the Son of a Bitch | |
| Wasteland 3 (Video Game) / int_32768814 | comment |
Kick The Son Of A Bitch: Various raiders, cultists, slavers and cannibals fill the Colorado wasteland for the player to kill. Ironclad Cordite stands out. Many players despise him so much for being an unrepentant slaver that they simply kill him after the conversation finishes even if they support Angela. The Patriarch's children also count since the player can decide that getting the Patriarch's help isn't worth letting psychopaths like Victory or Liberty live. | |
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Collection Sidequest | |
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Collection Sidequest: Collect all the cassette tapes, in-game lore books,Creepy Dolls, vehicle upgrades, and one of each type of animal companion for their respective achievements. Lure five cyborg chickens back to HQ and assemble the five golden toaster pieces for unique Action Pets. | |
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Grim Up North | |
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Grim Up North: The game is set in the wastes of Colorado which, in comparison to the high desert of Arizona and the hostile, mutated overgrowth of California, is locked in a perpetual nuclear winter. | |
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Ruder and Cruder | |
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Ruder and Cruder: While not really any darker than the already-dark Wasteland 2, the obscenity in this game is cranked way up in this game compared to the earlier game's more typical use of Precision F-Strike, the Joke Character of Chris van Graas notwithstanding. | |
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Clone Degeneration | |
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Clone Degeneration: A sidequest has you encounter several hostile clones. Once you meet their creator, you learn that they were not supposed to be hostile but apparently they did not come out entirely right. As it turns out, their creator is himself a clone: a fourth-generation clone of a villain from the first game. He actually is not so bad, but he admits that this trope is why he is not nearly as skilled as his progenitor. You can even invite him to Ranger HQ; if you do, he can 'clone' one of your characters but this trope is still in effect: the result is a very simple-minded (though loyal) follower that can do nothing but spout nonsense while it runs around and punches your enemies. | |
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Face Death with Dignity | |
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Mixing with Face Death with Dignity, this is The Patriarch's fate if you depose him. Whether he's exiled into an unknown fate, stuck in the pillories to freeze to death or simply thrown in prison till he dies from his palsy, he refuses to break or apologize and insists that everything he did was for the good of Colorado. The only time this is averted is if you brought the raider gangs to loot Colorado Springs and tell him you plan to take all you can get. In that case he shoots himself out of despair. | |
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Properly Paranoid | |
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Properly Paranoid: The Patriarch chose to offer the Rangers a deal to capture his children rather than any of the local factions because he believes that, given the chance, they might betray him if they think they can profit from it. He's absolutely right. Unfortunately for him he doesn't catch on that they might decide to back the Rangers instead to depose him, which is exactly what happens in the November Reigns ending. | |
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Powered Armor | |
| Wasteland 3 (Video Game) / int_3d59c9a0 | comment |
Similar to the Highpool/Ag Center choice from Wasteland 2, the moment you get out of Colorado Springs, you're faced with the choice of whether to save the lives of an innocent family of farmsteaders (they did ask first) or a shipment of Powered Armor for the blatant corrupt Colorado Marshals — whose approval is your best hope of sending help back home to Arizona. The stakes are slightly smaller, in this case, but the theme is set: there isn't always going to be a Golden Path that lets you get everything you want and save everyone you're trying to save. | |
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The Cover Changes the Meaning | |
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The Cover Changes the Meaning: Many real-life songs appear In the Style of other artists with deliberate Soundtrack Dissonance in mind, several during boss fights. '80s hits are repurposed and transposed to different genres for maximum irony, such as the normal fast-paced "Land of Confusion" by Genesis being turned into a somber, atmospheric Softer and Slower Cover, while "Everybody Have Fun Tonight" by Wang Chung goes from dance track to mournful country ballad as the backing song for the Cannibal Jamboree. A updated, sincerely creepy version of "The Monster Mash" by Bobby Pickett and the Crypt-Kickers plays on DJ R.I.P.'s radio station out of the Bizarre. One goth rock cover features what sounds vaguely like a slowed-down version of the guitar lick from Billy Idol's "White Wedding" but reveals itself as the Theme Tune from Green Acres. The theme from Welcome Back, Kotter is tweaked to be less ironic, as an easy listening folk-pop "hit". WKRP in Cincinnati, on the other hand, goes from easy listening to a retro indie-country style — twangy but dreamy guitars and Perishing Alt-Rock vocals. Christian hymns like "Are You Washed in the Blood" and "Gone to the Valley to Pray" are given a darker, more sinister edge and a driving drumbeat — the latter also has a version sung by a Cherubic Choir of sweet-voiced children which plays in opulent halls of the Patriarch's palace, in a departure from its beginnings as an African-American spiritual believed to have been written by a slave. Patriotic anthems such as "America the Beautiful" and "Battle Hymn of the Republic" take on a bitter or even tragic twist. There are three versions of the former: a Creepy Children Singing version as the Patriarch lays you to waste if you make the mistake of attacking him the first time you meet (without cheats); the lounge-y guitar-and-organ version that plays during the fights with or against the Gippers, whether defending the Denver Capitol Building from the Godfishers or fighting your way out of it with the Reagan AI; and a country-western version that plays during the final fight with Vic's inner circle in Aspen. The latter is given a slow, intense gospel cover and plays over two optional 'boss fights': The first being if you choose to extrajudicially gun down a band of poorly armed teenagers and the second if you choose to spring Iron Cordite from prison, who is later revealed to be a brutal Wasteland Warlord and a slaver. Cult of the Holy Detonation adds a version of the Gilligan's Island theme to the radio songs, which is sung more or less identically to "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald". The change in instrumentation and key ends up making the wacky premise of the series sound a lot more somber and downcast. | |
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Hillbilly Horrors | |
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Hillbilly Horrors: The Dorsey Clan is a textbook example: they wear mantles made of hair, bones, and intestines (some apparently human), are members of an insane torture-death cult where the eponymous Dorseys are the Dark Messiahs that will cleanse the world in a "Deluge of Blood", take great pleasure in bloody sacrifice, and speak in thick hillbilly accents. | |
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Optional Party Member | |
| Wasteland 3 (Video Game) / int_3fef1f9b | comment |
Optional Party Member: All companions are optional, but they're the only way to build a party of more than four Rangers. Temporarily averted with Lucia, who Sheriff Daisy forces you to take in the attempt to rescue her family from the Dorseys in the Garden of the Gods, though you can dismiss her afterwards. Hard-drinking, safecracking hobo-with-a-shotgun Scotchmo and peppy mutant scientist Pizepi Joren return from Wasteland 2. All Token Evil Teammates can also be killed or arrested, in the case of Vic Buchanan. | |
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Morton's Fork | |
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A pair of cultists in the Children of the Holy Detonation DLC will use the intercom at Cheyenne station to constantly decry Team November for whatever you chose to do during the game. Since they're hostile, they'll basically chew you out for all outcomes of quests until they run out of things to criticise you over. | |
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Guest-Star Party Member | |
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Guest-Star Party Member: Sharp-dressed Latin-speaking mystery man the Provost returns and tags along with his powerful handgun. Angela Deth also joins you if you side with her whereas the Patriarch is forced back into the palace in his side's final boss. | |
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Bittersweet Ending | |
| Wasteland 3 (Video Game) / int_40cc0c7e | comment |
Bittersweet Ending: As with the previous game, almost everything is resolved this way. Even the closest thing to the Golden Ending still leaves behind a bitter aftertaste with clear winners and losers. Some people will benefit from your actions, but others will suffer from those same actions, no matter what your choices were. Specific to the main quest if you overthrow the Patriarch, you depose a dictator but throw his lands into chaos, severely crippling any benefits from an alliance between Arizona and an organized Colorado nation-state. Jodie Bell among many others suffers as a result of this and comes to hate you for it. If you support the Patriarch, he's a man of his word and sends the Arizona Rangers the much-needed aid he promised, but you'll essentially be condemning Angela Deth and the other rebels to death, if you don't end up killing them yourself. However, if you make the right friends, it's possible to achieve a peaceful transition of power and bring order to both Colorado and Arizona. | |
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Non-Lethal K.O. | |
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However in the "Battle of Steeltown" DLC they will gleefully try to murder the workers you are trying to just subject to Non-Lethal K.O. so if you're doing a Pacifist Run you'll have to dismiss all of them, at least until near the end. The game at least has the curtesy to inform you of this during the DLC specific tutorial. | |
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Downplayed Trope | |
| Wasteland 3 (Video Game) / int_42c9f1ec | comment |
This comes back in the Steeltown DLC, albeit in a less stark way. Abigail Markham is a brutal, dictatorial overlord of Steeltown who cannot even pretend she gives a fuck about her workers, and worse, she's given all major decision-making to the Computation Engine, after she enslaved the synths to it, which almost anyone could have seen would lead to trouble later. Shooting her head of security- a decision even Jodie Bell supports- and backing up Salene Crow when she demands Markham step down seems like the obvious choice. However, Crow actually doesn't know how to run a factory, so if her group of workers take over, they ruin Steeltown and do tremendous damage to Colorado's future prosperity. The reason it's a Downplayed Trope is because there's a way to make the not-quite-right thing into the right thing- if Team November allies with Blue's Ghost Gang. He helped Markham build the place, and he knows how to keep it running, meaning that him and Salene Crow can team up and keep Steeltown going, sparing Colorado the economic damage while still improving the lives of the workers. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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No Fair Cheating | |
| Wasteland 3 (Video Game) / int_42d9daf9 | comment |
No Fair Cheating: If you somehow manage to kill the Patriarch when you first visit Peterson AFB/Ranger HQ (he has extremely high health and armornote His armor is equivalent to a decent suit of Powered Armor and his health is even higher than that of the Final Boss, all while your party only has starting equipment which means he should be undefeatable by conventional means), whether through glitches, exploits or cheats, you will get a ending slide that states "One moment, the Patriarch was in charge. The next, he had been deposed by mysterious strangers from Arizona. It is whispered that they were gods in human form, who didn't 'play by our rules'." The Busker's song also reflects this, calling you out because you "broke the game". | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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What a Piece of Junk | |
| Wasteland 3 (Video Game) / int_437e70f5 | comment |
What a Piece of Junk: A rare case where the vehicle itself expresses this reaction. If you install the Morningstar AI into your Kodiak, it'll express a bit of unease from being put inside a clunky old vehicle that is inferior to the one it used to inhabit. However, while the Kodiak might be a rusty bucket of bolts that potentially has a bunch of junk thrown onto its chassis to serve as makeshift armor, it's still a durable combination of a tank and APC that can tread the snowy wilderness of Colorado, and unlike Morningstar's original body, it can actually move. And Morningstar itself makes the Kodiak even more deceptively powerful. | |
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1.0 | |
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Tranquil Fury | |
| Wasteland 3 (Video Game) / int_443b78cd | comment |
Tranquil Fury: The Patriarch rarely ever raises his voice, but when he's angry you can definitely tell. Talk to him after letting any of his children die, and he'll call you Oathbreakers with a snarl. | |
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Player Party | |
| Wasteland 3 (Video Game) / int_451db180 | comment |
Player Party: Team November, starting out with two and later up to four custom-made Rangers. Unlike 2, you can swap out or create new Rangers at the same experience level any time you're at base, making this an even more open-ended example than most. | |
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Golden Ending | |
| Wasteland 3 (Video Game) / int_47e4f5f5 | comment |
How can you leave a tyrant like the Patriarch in power? But how can you remove him without causing worse damage in the short term, including, once again, the fact that Arizona needs his help? General Woodson points out that the latter choice is not as binary as it appears — the Rangers can re-examine their relationship with the man in the future without burning bridges in the present. And subverted in that there is a Golden Ending in the form of the "November Reigns" scenario. | |
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-0.3 | |
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1.0 | |
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Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome | |
| Wasteland 3 (Video Game) / int_4cb7f0d8 | comment |
Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome: As it turns out, Snake Vargas sacrificed himself to detonate the Davy Crockett rocket in Wasteland 2. You know, the thing the ending chewed you out for if you allowed him to do it. | |
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1.0 | |
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Stop Poking Me! | |
| Wasteland 3 (Video Game) / int_4cc57ad5 | comment |
Stop Poking Me!: Keep clicking on the Patriarch while he's on the radio at the beginning and he'll eventually yell at you to "Fuck off!" and you'll lose -1 reputation with the Hundred Families. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Urine Trouble | |
| Wasteland 3 (Video Game) / int_4d97e2b9 | comment |
Urine Trouble: There are some patches of snow you can pee on that will then generated unlimited batches of Yellow Snowballs for you to collect. You can chuck them at enemies for giggles, but they have only a small chance to have some negligible effects. However, you can later craft them into Yellow Snowbombs, which do a solid amount of damage over a wide area and poison all enemies caught in the blast. | |
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1.0 | |
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Downer Ending | |
| Wasteland 3 (Video Game) / int_4e3d253b | comment |
Downer Ending: Siding with Angela Deth (without getting the support of the Marshals and Hundred Families) and choosing to abandon Arizona leads to the worst ending with Colorado splintering into multiple warring factions while the people of Arizona die due to lack of supplies. Likewise killing the Patriarch's children and not convincing him to honor the deal ends with you not getting supplies and the Rangers forced to leave their home for destinations unknown. | |
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1.0 | |
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Smug Snake | |
| Wasteland 3 (Video Game) / int_4f84cdef | comment |
Smug Snake: The Patriarch's children have to be taken alive and they damn well know it. Valor is especially bad because he's under the protection of the Gippers and is already egotistical besides, but Victory is damn sure you can't afford to kill him and the only time he's surprised is if you refuse his surrender and gun him down. | |
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1.0 | |
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Disproportionate Retribution | |
| Wasteland 3 (Video Game) / int_50b05d30 | comment |
Disproportionate Retribution: In Colorado Springs, the punishment for any crime worse than drunkenness and disorderly conduct - from selling drugs to murder - is being stuck in the pillory exposed to the freezing cold weather. At best you survive with body parts lost to frostbite, at worst you die from exposure. | |
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1.0 | |
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Donut Mess with a Cop | |
| Wasteland 3 (Video Game) / int_50f50a5e | comment |
Donut Mess with a Cop: Lampshaded by an ambient conversation in Marshal HQ; two Marshals discuss the mythical "donut," speculating on whether they were ever even real to begin with. | |
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1.0 | |
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Cutting Off the Branches | |
| Wasteland 3 (Video Game) / int_52475ffd | comment |
Cutting Off the Branches: While it doesn't dump it on you all at once, scattered hints exist through dialogue and radio chatter setting canon outcomes for the previous game's quests. The gist of it is that Team Echo achieved the "good endings" for nearly every faction, but the final battle was a bloodbath that ended in a Pyrrhic Victory. Radio chatter indicates that God's Militia was reformed by Ascendance and Victoria, so Hollywood survived and both factions are, presumably, doing well. The Mannerite background — and the Mannerite you can meet at the Bizarre — indicate the Mannerites are still in good health. The Rail Nomads were brought together peacefully, but the hard times brought on by Ranger Citadel's destruction have made the fighting start back up. It remains unclear if it was Highpool or Ag Center that got destroyed, but given that food is the most commonly cited part of the Patriarch's supplies, evidence leans towards Ag Center. Given further revelations below about cyborgs, this also most likely means it was Lexcanium who died at Ranger Citadel, taken over by the Cochise AI. The presence of Pizepi and Scotchmo indicate that Team Echo recruited them and kept the presence of mutants at Darwin village secret since Pizepi leaves if you tell Thrasher. Scotchmo will also confuse Ironclad Cordite with Lexcanium. Gary 'NaCL' Wolfe mentions running with a Ranger squad so the canon ending for the Canyon of Titan is the Diamondback Militia gaining control of the nuke. Brother Thomas, Pistol Pete and Takayuki also show up as part of Angela Deth's squad so they were canonically recruited. Judging by Gary Wolfe's comments if your character becomes a cyborg it's also likely that Rose and/or Lexcanium were present at the final battle, and got taken over by the Cochise AI, which would explain his hatred of synths and cyborgs of all kinds. | |
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1.0 | |
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Affably Evil | |
| Wasteland 3 (Video Game) / int_537dd8fe | comment |
Affably Evil: Though curt and not exactly warm, the Patriarch is nonetheless fair in his dealings and lets the Rangers get away with a lot more than his reputation might suggest. Victory "Vic" Buchannan counts as well, in a more Faux Affably Evil manner, cheerfully greeting you with a smile after he forced you to go through a gauntlet of his men and the bodies of innocent people he's murdered. He even offers to join your group and, should you refuse, won't fight back and and simply let you cuff him. The Monster Army from the Bizarre are so nice and helpful that you almost forget that they were one of the worst gangs in the country before the Patriarch subdued them (though since that was 50 years ago, it's unlikely any of the current members outside of Flab were part of that). Even Flab recounting their atrocities sounds more like an eager grandfather reminiscing about the good old days. Faran Brygo and his underling Charley Knowes are rather polite and friendly to the player, fitting with their mobster aesthetic. The evil part is removed for Charley assuming he takes over the Bizarre and Brygo is dead/arrested. See Heel–Face Turn below. | |
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Forced to Watch | |
| Wasteland 3 (Video Game) / int_5af55436 | comment |
Forced to Watch: In the ending where the Rangers join Liberty she spares her father and drags him around in a cage so he can watch her tear down everything he'd built. | |
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1.0 | |
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Disc-One Nuke | |
| Wasteland 3 (Video Game) / int_5b81ca8d | comment |
Disc-One Nuke: You can get a Slicer Dicer Self-Assembler before even setting foot in Colorado Springs, which allows you to deploy one the most powerful robotic minions in the game. It's one-use only though and very rare, so good luck finding a fight you're willing to sacrifice it in. If you're willing to hand an innocent young woman over to some slavers, you'll get access to a full set of Power Armor and an endgame-level weapon or two before even bagging one of the Patriarch's children. It's up to you if taking such powerful loot is worth the hit to your conscience. | |
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Gang of Hats | |
| Wasteland 3 (Video Game) / int_5bf69547 | comment |
Gang of Hats: All the tribes and raider gangs have their defining gimmick and costumes. Many of these are practical, but several are largely for effect: Faran Brygo and his mooks dress like movie mobsters, in hats and suits with tommy guns, complete with stagey, stereotypical Joisey accents and Rat Pack patter. None of them having been further east than Colorado, they learned it all from old tapes. The Monster Army wear rubber monster masks and currently embody a light-hearted Theme Park Version of old horror movies, but they were once one of the most terrifying conquering armies in the region, believing it was not the masks themselves that were scary, but what hiding behind a mask let a person do. The Gippers dress like old-time movie cowboys, love guns, hate communists, and worship an AI version of Ronald Reagan, the Gipper himself. Their leading priestesses all rename themselves Nancy and are ceremonially married to the God-President. Most people think they're crazy, but between their guns and the Eye Beams of their robot statue of Reagan, their control over the oil wells in Denver is mostly uncontested. The Payasos (Spanish for "clowns") are a cross between Latino Gangbangers and nihilist Monster Clowns. They wear full makeup, wigs, and noses, and have a circus motif and a penchant for high explosives, cannibalism, and very Black Comedy, believing the current state of the world proves that existence is inherently absurd and the only thing to do is laugh through the pain. | |
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Pragmatic Villainy | |
| Wasteland 3 (Video Game) / int_5ca80293 | comment |
Pragmatic Villainy: The Patriarch, despite being an admitted tyrant, states that he has no plans to expand his empire or invade any other areas because that would just spread him too thin and risk collapsing what he'd already built. Liberty even disparages him for this, noting that alliances and trade deals are far less sure than subjugating anyone in their way. | |
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1.0 | |
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Save Scumming | |
| Wasteland 3 (Video Game) / int_5cfeb43f | comment |
Non-combat skills like Lockpicking were turned into binary pass/fail and let you know the difficulty in advance, removing the incentive for Save Scumming which clogged the previous game. | |
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| Wasteland 3 (Video Game) / int_5f930b19 | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
| Wasteland 3 (Video Game) / int_5f930b19 | comment |
Rollan Giff, pitmaster of the Cannibal Jamboree, is named after Roland Gift, lead singer of New Wave band Fine Young Cannibals. David Steeler and Andy Coss are bassist David Steele and guitarist Andy Cox, and Parry Marlin and Grahaminahamham are touring members Martin Parry and Graeme Hamilton. The record on the player is labelled "Dapper Youthful Cannibals". Someone was a fan. | |
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1.0 | |
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The Last DJ | |
| Wasteland 3 (Video Game) / int_60b4a128 | comment |
Frank Pappas, a down-and-out former lawman living in obscurity, is made out to be the worst of them, but this is subverted if you let him join the Rangers — it seems like he was forced out because he was too disgusted by his fellow officers to keep letting it slide. | |
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-0.3 | |
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1.0 | |
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Heel–Face Turn | |
| Wasteland 3 (Video Game) / int_617f0563 | comment |
Heel–Face Turn: Charley Knowes in the ending assuming he takes over the Bizarre and Brygo is dead/arrested. The ending states that he treated both merchants and customers with fairness and respect and calls him a decent man. If the Patriarch is overthrown violently and November leaves then the Bizarre becomes a refugee town where Charley does his best to protect the people from the slavers and gangs. The end card even says he became the hero he always portrayed himself as in his stories. | |
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Bunny-Ears Lawyer | |
| Wasteland 3 (Video Game) / int_61b8f9e2 | comment |
Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Scotchmo. Despite being a drunk hobo with late stage liver disease he's a master of the shotgun and safecracking and somehow bungled all the way to Colorado without even realizing it. Even by the ending he seems totally lost on what's going on and joins only because he left 'is squeezins at HQ. | |
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1.0 | |
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| Wasteland 3 (Video Game) / int_6293c185 | type |
Sequel Hook | |
| Wasteland 3 (Video Game) / int_6293c185 | comment |
Sequel Hook: There are numerous references to Kansas, which is stated be even worse than Colorado, with Ironclad Cordite making plans to go there to take over and rumors of Scotchmo being there drinking after he disappears in the ending. | |
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| Wasteland 3 (Video Game) / int_6366f900 | type |
Old Soldier | |
| Wasteland 3 (Video Game) / int_6366f900 | comment |
Non-player character examples include Team November's doomed commander Major Vera Prasad, who dies in the initial Dorsey ambush; veteran lawwoman Sheriff Daisy of the Colorado Marshals; Liberty Buchanan, the most dangerous of the Patriarch’s children; and Previous Player-Character Cameo Angela Deth. | |
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| Wasteland 3 (Video Game) / int_638b65bc | type |
Armor Is Useless | |
| Wasteland 3 (Video Game) / int_638b65bc | comment |
After the last game and its Director's Cut botched armor pretty badly, armor is pretty much a necessity in this game. | |
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1.0 | |
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Even Evil Has Loved Ones | |
| Wasteland 3 (Video Game) / int_63d861f8 | comment |
Even Evil Has Loved Ones: The Patriarch is very clear that he wants the his children back alive and will be displeased if the Rangers can't follow through. Liberty in particular, if taken alive, is removed from prison and allowed back into the palace (albeit still restrained) while her father tries (and fails) to bond with her. He also, at least publicly, excuses away Valor and Victory's crimes by saying the former was kidnapped by the Gippers while the latter wasn't really responsible for the Aspen massacre. Erastus Dorsey despises the Rangers for killing his brother in the intro and swears vengeance on them. The fact that he massacred your team and you were just defending yourself doesn't seem to register. | |
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| Wasteland 3 (Video Game) / int_6411dac8 | type |
BadassNormal | |
| Wasteland 3 (Video Game) / int_6411dac8 | comment |
Badass Normal: The Rangers. Compared to gangs like the Dreamers (who are under so many drugs they're in a constant dream state) and the Scar Collectors (who chopped off their limbs for cybernetic enhancements) or the various mutated creatures of the wasteland they have nothing but skill, weaponry and sheer determination on their side. | |
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1.0 | |
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| Wasteland 3 (Video Game) / int_6b05b601 | type |
Jerkass Has a Point | |
| Wasteland 3 (Video Game) / int_6b05b601 | comment |
Jerkass Has a Point: Gary 'NaCl' Wolfe is a synth hunter who continuously insults the rangers and responds to small talk with barely restrained contempt. He's also completely right about the Synths being dangerous and needing to be put down. Synths were made by the Cochise AI for the sole purpose of helping it exterminate mankind and even 'innocent' ones like October-11 were made for the express purpose of being infiltration units and to make humans hesitate. If you let it go it kills another human. He also insults you if you get the cyborg implant but considering what could happen to Rose and Lexcanium if you take them to fight the Cochise AI he has good reason to be wary. Charley Knowes is a gangster who wants to raid the Bizarre and install his own personal cartel in its place. This would involve killing and ousting the Monster Army inhabiting it, who despite their past as a vicious gang, are now a generally harmless crew of eccentrics who run a fair business. However, he raises a valid concern when he points out that they're militarily weak and that it's only a matter of time before a more powerful group conquers them and takes the Bizarre for itself, cutting off one of Colorado's most important trade hubs. The Monster Army is unknowingly being held under siege by the Payasos, and isn't in any position to defend itself once the gang penetrates its defenses (by tunneling into the Warrens), and would likely have been slaughtered by them had the Rangers not intervened. It gets even worse when one remembers that the Payaso is the weakest of the Plains gangs. | |
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Adipose Rex | |
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Adipose Rex: Flab the Inhaler, current leader of the Monster Army, and the only member of the old guard smart enough to make peace with the Patriarch. The name is both a pun on his weight as well as how he says "Vlad the Impaler" with his fake Vampire Vords accent and plastic vampire teeth — he dresses like the classic image of Dracula (or Grandpa Munster), with a gut that's constantly threatening to burst the buttons of his shirt and waistcoat. He'll even approve if you tell him the name suits him, since, as he points out, very few people in the Wasteland are successful enough to get fat. | |
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Meaningful Name | |
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Meaningful Name: Cordite is a type of smokeless explosive. Ironclad Cordite is a cyborg whose default skillset includes Explosives. | |
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Gangbangers | |
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The Payasos (Spanish for "clowns") are a cross between Latino Gangbangers and nihilist Monster Clowns. They wear full makeup, wigs, and noses, and have a circus motif and a penchant for high explosives, cannibalism, and very Black Comedy, believing the current state of the world proves that existence is inherently absurd and the only thing to do is laugh through the pain. | |
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Driven to Suicide | |
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Driven to Suicide: The Patriarch in the ending where you raid Colorado Springs and tell him you plan to take as much as you can. | |
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Balance Buff | |
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Balance Buff: The gun jams are removed, making Heavy Weapons more practical along with the general avoidance of the annoyance of your guns constantly jamming, which required specific weapon mods just to avoid the hassle. Attributes are more balanced and now offer a variety of benefits, with Intelligence no longer being One Stat to Rule Them All and Strength no longer being the Dump Stat you (melee fighters not withstanding) grudgingly put points into to deal with the annoyances of encumbrance. Strength is now valuable for any character who is not a Sniper due to giving you a decent batch of extra Hit Points and the ability to wear armor that will keep you alive. After the last game and its Director's Cut botched armor pretty badly, armor is pretty much a necessity in this game. The ten weapon skills of Wasteland 2 were largely condensed into six for this game, reducing the need to spend points into too many different weapons (which in practice left many weapon types ignored). The game combined Pistols and Shotguns into Small Arms, Assault Rifles and Submachine Guns into Automatic Weapons, Bladed and Blunt into Melee weapons, and Energy Weapons were simply folded into other categories as an alternate type of ammo, such as Laser Pistols, Laser Blunt weapons, Laser Assault Rifles, etc. This was so efficient they even added new weapons, like flamethrowers, shrink grenades, and a Frozen Ferret Launcher- most of which use Weird Science as their skill- making the game even more diverse when it came to weapon options. In addition, most weapon skills start at a higher base level of accuracy, providing more incentive to have a back-up weapon. In the previous game, not having at least 3-4 ranks in a weapon skill made even switching to that weapon as a backup or alternate choice mostly pointless. Skills are much cheaper for the first three ranks. Putting ranks into a few skills when starting the game only to find a companion who is much better at that skill is not as harsh this time around. Non-combat skills like Lockpicking were turned into binary pass/fail and let you know the difficulty in advance, removing the incentive for Save Scumming which clogged the previous game. | |
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Guide Dang It! | |
| Wasteland 3 (Video Game) / int_6ec989d8 | comment |
Guide Dang It!: The prerequisites for the November Reigns ending, which allows you to peacefully convince The Patriarch to step down from power with the support of Angela Deth, the Hundred Families, and the Patriarch's Marshals, are incredibly strict. Not only do you need to be loved by both the Hundred Families and The Marshals (with most of this reputation gain being made in early game, with very little room for error), but choosing incorrectly in at least two different missions can lock you out of getting the ending completely (siding with Mama Cotter over Gideon Reyes and sending the Reagan AI to the Machine Commune or otherwise wiping out the Gippers at any point in their questline). It's telling that two weeks after release, only 0.6% of players on Steam managed to get this ending. | |
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Religious Bruiser | |
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The team of Rangers Angela Deth brought to Colorado includes brash young miner Takayuki, gunslinging merchant Pistol Pete, and Religious Bruiser Brother Thomas, recruited by Team Echo in Wasteland 2. While it's revealed that they have in fact survived, they can't join Team November and have only a few relatively generic lines between them, and you can end up killing them in the Final Boss fight if you side with the Patriarch. | |
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I Gave My Word | |
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I Gave My Word: Despite hints of his duplicity and numerous Shoot the Dog moments, if the Rangers follow the Patriarch to the end he'll give the supplies to Arizona just like he promised. | |
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Villain Has a Point | |
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The Patriarch's hands are by no means clean — he's a clear tyrant who associates with some the worst people in Colorado, and if two murderous children and three dead wives are any indication, he's not much better to those closest to him. Nevertheless he really has achieved something closer to bringing back the America of old than anyone else in the wasteland, on a far greater scale, and out of a seemingly genuine desire to see the majority of his people safe and happy — even if that means others suffer unjustly along the way. In the ending where you fight to remove him from power, you can refute his methods or the idea that he's the only one who could achieve this, but he's not wrong when he tells you how difficult it will be not to lose ground or make some sacrifices, whether in Colorado and Arizona, if the Rangers overthrow his rule. | |
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What the Hell, Player? | |
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What the Hell, Player?: If you somehow manage to kill the Patriarch the first time you meet him before you've been given a reasonable justification to do so, you get a secret ending/Non Standard Game Over, notifying you (in song) that it would be pointless to continue, since the story revolved around him and his family, so your "terrible decisions and random acts of violence broke the game". | |
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Retired Monster | |
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Retired Monster: Pun aside, the Monster Army, or at least Flab given the age of the other members. Backstory and logs from fifty years ago indicate they were one of the most vicious gangs in the area and that the monster masks they wore were nothing compared to the true monsters underneath. By the time you see them, however, they're friendly to outsiders and run the Bizarre fairly. | |
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Killer Rabbit | |
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Killer Rabbit: Animals that you tame and make into companions, including normally docile ones like actual rabbits, won't hesitate to charge and attack your enemies, potentially doing serious damage against unarmored foes. | |
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Bond Villain Stupidity | |
| Wasteland 3 (Video Game) / int_7570a10c | comment |
Bond Villain Stupidity: Liberty ambushes the party early on during their trip to Denver. Considering her high level and robots she's more than strong enough to kill you (and will if you try to attack her). However, she simply lets you go with a warning to her father. This bites her back horribly by the time you confront her a second time and she lampshades the fact that she should've killed you early on. | |
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Action Prologue | |
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Action Prologue: The game sets its tone by starting with the Ranger convoy to Colorado being ambushed, and the player quickly sees the Rangers of their convoy almost entirely end up killed, and can easily find other rangers that are already dead with text descriptions of just how they were brutally tortured/killed. The first "boss" of the game seen in it gets his brains messily get blown out of his head by the end of his conversation! | |
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The Big Bad Shuffle | |
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The Big Bad Shuffle: Liberty is the strongest of the Patriarch's children and the last one the player faces. After she's been killed or captured the role goes to either the Patriarch or Angela Deth depending on who you side with, though on November Reigns, the Patriarch becomes a Cutscene Boss as the entire city of Colorado Springs turns on him and puts the Rangers in charge. | |
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Betting Mini-Game | |
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Betting Mini-Game: You can participate in slot machines, roulette, blackjack, High/Low or three card monty at Little Vegas. You can cheat in slot machines (by hacking or jimmying the machine) and blackjack (by counting cards repeatedly), but doing so will get you cut off from said minigames. Arresting or killing Faran Brygo will also remove these minigames completely. | |
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Not Quite the Right Thing | |
| Wasteland 3 (Video Game) / int_7a19a69b | comment |
Not Quite the Right Thing: Fitting with the theme of harsh decisions and compromises, sometimes doing the seemingly good thing can backfire terribly. Eliminating the Gippers means that there won't be any oil for the rest of Colorado since they're among the few left that know how to drill for and process it. On the other hand, allying with the Machine Commune means they can start processing oil as well... which, depending on your actions, they might sell to everyone including the roving bands of raiders, cults and slavers. Choosing Angela's ending without securing the right alliances leads to Colorado becoming fractured and Arizona either not receiving as much help as they could or being abandoned entirely with Jodie Bell in particular having her family killed in the latter choice. Many of the NPCs (and by extension the decisions related to them) end up going down this path: Mama Cotter wants to help the wasteland refugees by smuggling them into Colorado Springs...despite the fact that the city is already overcrowded and straining to supply its citizens as it is, and that adding more is definitely not making things any better. As a result, refusing to arrest her will lock the player out of the November Reigns Golden Ending, as it means Gideon Reyes will not be willing to play ball with the Rangers while in the midst of the refugee crisis. This comes back in the Steeltown DLC, albeit in a less stark way. Abigail Markham is a brutal, dictatorial overlord of Steeltown who cannot even pretend she gives a fuck about her workers, and worse, she's given all major decision-making to the Computation Engine, after she enslaved the synths to it, which almost anyone could have seen would lead to trouble later. Shooting her head of security- a decision even Jodie Bell supports- and backing up Salene Crow when she demands Markham step down seems like the obvious choice. However, Crow actually doesn't know how to run a factory, so if her group of workers take over, they ruin Steeltown and do tremendous damage to Colorado's future prosperity. The reason it's a Downplayed Trope is because there's a way to make the not-quite-right thing into the right thing- if Team November allies with Blue's Ghost Gang. He helped Markham build the place, and he knows how to keep it running, meaning that him and Salene Crow can team up and keep Steeltown going, sparing Colorado the economic damage while still improving the lives of the workers. Surprisingly averted in the Cult of the Holy Detonation DLC. The major decisions involved really only have three possible outcomes, one obviously wrong (albeit leading to a joke ending), and two of which are treated more neutrally, with neither falling under this category. | |
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Right Way/Wrong Way Pair | |
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Right Way/Wrong Way Pair: Peek and Poke in-universe. The small and diminutive Peek is portrayed as caring, smart, and always willing to lend a helping hand, while Poke is a greedy and selfish Fat Bastard that takes what he wants no matter what. Averted in the games actual UI that seems to present Peek and Poke as pretty cordial companions with one another. | |
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Token Evil Teammate | |
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Token Evil Teammate: Ironclad Cordite, when all is said and done, is still an unrepentent slaver and warlord. Fishlips, likewise, is a cannibal gang leader. And you can even recruit Victory Buchanan, the psychopathic architect of the mass murder and torture of anyone who had the misfortune to be in Aspen at the time. | |
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Black-and-White Morality | |
| Wasteland 3 (Video Game) / int_7abd339f | comment |
On the other hand, veteran Ranger Angela Deth ghosted on Arizona command, went against orders, and embarked on a campaign to oust the Patriarch and assassinate the man and his children to give Colorado back its freedom and justice... without considering whether this is something most Coloradans want, given the encroaching presence of half a dozen major gangs on the plains, scanning Colorado Springs for signs of weakness. Angie's heart might have been in the right place, but as General Woodson says, she's always seen things purely in black and white — there is a real possibility that without the Patriarch to hold the new nation together, Colorado will fall apart, Arizona won't get its much-needed supplies, and a lot of good people in both states will starve, freeze, or die to raider bullets or in slaver shackles. During the ending where you side with the Patriarch, you can point out that her saying she wants to save lives rings somewhat hollow in light of all the blood that's been shed on the streets of Colorado Springs and in Ranger HQ. | |
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THeUnfavorite | |
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The Unfavorite: Liberty claims to have been this back home with her father prioritizing Valor and Victory over her. Talking to the Patriarch has him claim she was actually his favored child but he found her lust for power too much to give her the throne. The real unfavorite judging by the Patriarch's comments seems to be Valor, which is ironic considering he's the least evil and depraved of the three. | |
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Too Awesome to Use | |
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You can get a Slicer Dicer Self-Assembler before even setting foot in Colorado Springs, which allows you to deploy one the most powerful robotic minions in the game. It's one-use only though and very rare, so good luck finding a fight you're willing to sacrifice it in. | |
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Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! | |
| Wasteland 3 (Video Game) / int_7fbb2a3 | comment |
Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: As per usual in the series, well-intentioned actions on your part will sometimes come back to bite you in the ass somewhere down the line. Depending on what you do when you're confronted with the choice of whether to save an Arapaho caravan or some homesteaders, you might make things harder for yourself in the future. If you save the former, but choose to oppose the Patriarch, you'll now have to fight his Marshals who are now decked out in Power Armor that the caravan delivered to him. Siding with Angela and toppling the Patriarch's regime without taking the precautionary steps to allow for a peaceful transfer of power. Congratulations, you ended a tyrant's rule and made sure his evil children will never harm another soul again. You also turned Colorado into a warzone by removing the one stabilizing power in it and doomed Arizona to starvation, failing everything you set out to achieve. | |
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Never Hurt an Innocent | |
| Wasteland 3 (Video Game) / int_82384b1 | comment |
Never Hurt an Innocent: Kwon, Lucia, Pvt. Jodie Bell, Scotchmo, and Pizepi can all leave your party if you deliberately kill innocent people; helpfully, they'll warn you three times if your attack includes any friendly targets. Annoyingly this also includes allied turrets for some reason. | |
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Broken Pedestal | |
| Wasteland 3 (Video Game) / int_868409c | comment |
Broken Pedestal: The Patriarch becomes this to supporters like Lucia Wesson and Marshall Kwon after they find out he gave away his people along with weapons and supplies to the gangs in exchange for not being raided, all while claiming he's a hero who defeated them. While they still believe in him it's a massive blow and in the November Reigns ending both decide to throw their lot in with the Rangers after acknowledging he's gone too far and needs to be replaced. | |
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Badass Boast | |
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Badass Boast: The player can make a few with Hard Ass dialogue options. It either gives you what you want, avoids a fight or demoralizes the enemy team and gives them stat debuffs. | |
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Black-and-Gray Morality | |
| Wasteland 3 (Video Game) / int_8767b1f3 | comment |
Black-and-Gray Morality: Much like the preceding games, this is the theme of the setting. The Black is the various gangs you fight. Dark Grey is the Patriarch in all his justified and not so justified Shoot the Dog decisions and Angela Deth who's willing to doom Arizona (and let Kansas be raided) if needed to stop the Patriarch. And then there are the Rangers who have to decide just how much they have to compromise their values to ensure that Arizona survives... But deciding not to compromise much is needed to get the ending where the Patriarch loses his power, Arizona is saved, and Colorado prospers, an ending so Light Gray that it's nearly White. | |
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Bait-and-Switch | |
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Bait-and-Switch: Considering his offer of joining your party and how dangerous he's been built up to be you expect Victory to be a tough boss fight like his sister. Instead he blows himself up with his own grenade while the player just watches, or gets gunned down without a chance to fight back. | |
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Eye Beams | |
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The Gippers dress like old-time movie cowboys, love guns, hate communists, and worship an AI version of Ronald Reagan, the Gipper himself. Their leading priestesses all rename themselves Nancy and are ceremonially married to the God-President. Most people think they're crazy, but between their guns and the Eye Beams of their robot statue of Reagan, their control over the oil wells in Denver is mostly uncontested. | |
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Badass Crew | |
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Badass Crew: Team November can and will fight through groups of insane raiders, cultists, machines (scorpitrons included), mutated animals and creatures of all kinds all throughout Colorado. They kind of have to be this, considering the fifty Rangers the Patriarch hired to gather his children have been reduced to a scant two in number- three if Team November saves Jodie Bell in the prologue. | |
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Denser and Wackier | |
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Denser and Wackier: Far, far more humorous and whimsical than the previous game, which itself was significantly more joyful when compared with the original Wasteland. | |
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Cool Car | |
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Cool Car: Ranger Team November's vehicle, the Kodiak, an armor-plated semi mounted on tank treads with an interchangeable tank turret and mortar. Not only is it the Rangers' main transport in the Colorado wasteland, it also serves as a custom weapon platform when the Rangers get into a firefight, making it a cool tank as well. It can be upgraded with various parts found or purchased throughout the game world, including a self-driving computer (and later a fully-sentient experimental AI), and customized with the hood ornament and horn of your choice. | |
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Exploding Barrels | |
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Exploding Barrels: There are lots of them, generously scattered about fighting arenas. They're usually justified in their placement, though, such as barrels of gas by gas heaters and liquid nitrogen barrels outside walk-in freezers. A dispraportianate amount of them can also be found near Payaso combat encounters, probably because they think it's funny to watch their friends get killed by one in a gun fight. | |
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Deconstructed Trope | |
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Deconstructed Trope: For all the post-apocalyptic tropey goodness Wasteland 3 plays perfectly straight, several tropes regarding player choice are thoroughly broken down — in particular the common CRPG point of no return of a choice between which talking head mission advisor you're going to side with. The game is full of Well-Intentioned Extremists who did what they had to do in the unforgiving wastes, most prominently the Patriarch, but also the Marshals, Liberty Buchanan, the various gangs/tribes who aren't simply bloodthirsty raiders, and possibly even the Rangers themselves. Yet repeatedly throughout the game, what seems like a Sadistic Choice with no clear "good" outcome is instead revealed to be less binary than it first seems. With a little effort, investigation, forethought, and luck, you can Take a Third Option. Which is then further deconstructed when it turns out that the third option may still force you to choose who to save, as in the November Reigns ending, which requires you to repeatedly Shoot the Dog, such as siding against the Wastelander Refugees in favor of more influential factions like the wealthy Hundred Families, and killing, not capturing, all three of the Patriarch's children, as would-be heirs. | |
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Ragtag Bunch of Misfits | |
| Wasteland 3 (Video Game) / int_8ad43dc9 | comment |
Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: Ignoring the custom Rangers your team is... out there. A former Marshall who sees the flaws of the system but doesn't know how to change it, the orphaned except not really daughter of one of Colorado's most esteemed families seeking revenge for her family's death, a farm girl who just wants to make sure her family's safe back home, a drunk hobo with a shotgun who doesn't even know he's in Colorado or what's going on most of the time, a mutant Ranger you save from a psychopath, a cannibal gang leader who joins only after you beat him down, the former leader of the Scar Collectors with plans to create his own empire, and even the Patriarch's psychopathic second son. | |
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Evil Pays Better | |
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Evil Pays Better: Generally speaking doing the immoral thing will get you far more than doing the opposite. Give up a girl to the slaver she just escaped from? You get a key that opens up an armory, which includes a helmet that increases critical chance by 15% along with other goodies. Help the cannibals instead of opening fire on them? A free suit of power armor long before it becomes available in the store. It's up to the player whether these benefits are worth the cost. | |
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Creepy Doll | |
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Creepy Doll: Actually called as such, they're the equivalent of Fallout bobbleheads, an ominous doll with a grim little rhyme that grants your squad minor benefits. Visually they appear to be a combination of Kewpies and Cabbage Patch Kids, fitting with the general '80s merchandise theme. | |
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Non-Standard Game Over | |
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If you somehow manage to kill the Patriarch the first time you meet him before you've been given a reasonable justification to do so, you get a secret ending/Non Standard Game Over, notifying you (in song) that it would be pointless to continue, since the story revolved around him and his family, so your "terrible decisions and random acts of violence broke the game". | |
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Ancient Conspiracy | |
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Collect all the golden toaster pieces and the golden hammer and your character will craft the fabled golden toaster. Take it to the secret shrine of the age-old fraternity of Toaster Repairmen and it's brought to life as a follower named Courageous — yes, a brave little toaster. | |
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Asshole Victim | |
| Wasteland 3 (Video Game) / int_8ed5c6e4 | comment |
Asshole Victim: Too many to count considering it's the Wasteland; thankfully, Team November can choose to hose them down with bullets if they find their crimes too abhorrent to let them live. If you opt to kill the Patriarch's children rather than arrest them, before taking the fight back to the Patriarch himself... couldn't happen to a nicer family. Liberty and Vic are both unrepentant mass murderers, Liberty a warmonger and Vic a supervillain-level sadist. Valor's the only one who hasn't got it coming for doing worse, and whether or not he deserves it, he's a condescending, cowardly, unpleasant Manchild with whom the player is unlikely to sympathize. And for all the Patriarch's speeches, he's got a lot of blood on his hands, and the way he talks to you and others when he's not behind a microphone show he's calculating and ruthless... even if his noble intentions are genuine. Scar Collector warlord Ironclad Cordite and Clouds-Drifting-West, deposed head of the Godfishers, are imprisoned by the Patriarch in his family's old, forgotten survival bunker. Considering both of them are unrepentant raiders/cultists with innocent blood on their hands, it's hard to pity them. Zigzagged with the Monster Army. While they're perfectly nice to the player and run the Bizarre fairly, it has to be said that they were one of the worst raider groups in the country during the backstory. If you ask Flab about stories, he'll cheerfully recall past atrocities they committed, such as the murder of a hundred farmers, with only a faint show of remorse if Lucia is present. This makes it easier for the player to side with Charley Knowes when he suggests killing them all to take over the Bizarre. On the other hand, the war with the Patriarch was a long time ago (so much so that Flab might be the only original member left), much of the current Monster Army weren't directly involved, and the veterans seem to have genuinely reformed, which can't be said for Charlie's designs on a coup and his previous backroom beatings with or without Brygo's orders. By that same token, taking care of Charlie Knowes for Flab also counts. | |
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Joke Character | |
| Wasteland 3 (Video Game) / int_8f1ec2c5 | comment |
Joke Character: Young Man Vinters from the "Battle for Steeltown" DLC. A man in a bear suit who communicates entirely through verbalising bear noises, he is only "recruitable" by characters with near-max Animal Whisperer. He takes the slot of animal companion for that character but has no combat utility whatsoever, spending 9/10ths of his time cowering from enemies; his only use is granting minor bonuses to elemental resistance. | |
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Token Good Teammate | |
| Wasteland 3 (Video Game) / int_8f612013 | comment |
Token Good Teammate: While hardly good — he did convince the Gippers to stop sending oil to the city — Valor is far less evil compared to his siblings. Victory is a Joker-esque mass murderer, and Liberty is a wannabe tyrant who wants to subjugate everyone and rule all of Colorado. By contrast, Valor just wants to be respected, and his main flaw is being an egotistical Manchild that has a too high opinion of himself. | |
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Cargo Cult | |
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Cargo Cult: The Nancys of the Gippers are priestesses who are literally married to their beloved God-President Reagan, an AI. | |
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Karmic Death | |
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Karmic Death: Contrasting Karma Houdini above, it's quite possible to make sure that the scumbags of the wasteland gets what's coming to them. All of the Patriarch's children can receive this in various ways if you choose to not arrest them. Valor can have his personality erased by the Reagan AI, finally getting the respect he craved only after he's gone; Victory will either blow himself up with his own grenade, be shot as he awaits arrest or be force-fed a clown burger only to die of poisoning by the Payasos, another group of Monster Clown raiders; and finally Liberty can simply be gunned down and denied mercy when she surrenders, fitting with her world view of mercy being a weakness. The Patriarch can be killed outright at any time in the game (though this is an extremely bad idea) or commit suicide if you bring the Raider gangs to Colorado Springs and tell him you plan to take everything from him. Depending on your view Angela's death counts as well since she does lead half your base to revolt if you side against her. | |
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Monster Clown | |
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Monster Clown: Apparently having both come to the idea independently, giggling sadistic mass murderer Vic Buchanan is a Joker expy who specializes in elaborate deathtraps and perverse "games", while the Payasos (literally Spanish for "clowns") are a raider gang with a circus motif who delight in deadly, often explosive pranks. Both have a similarly absurd nihilistic philosophy, seeing the world as inherently meaningless, one big joke played on all humanity. | |
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Flipping the Table | |
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Flipping the Table: If you try to arrest Faran Brygo without gaining leverage on him first (by rigging his ventilation system), he will flip the table, whip out two tommy guns and begin combat. | |
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Rocky Mountain Refuge | |
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Rocky Mountain Refuge: Though locked in perpetual nuclear winter, the (relative) peace and stability of the Patriarch's regime has made Colorado one of the last known remnants of the United States with any semblance of functioning civilization. | |
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Fluffy Tamer | |
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Fluffy Tamer: The Animal Whisperer skill is buffed compared to Wasteland 2, with more animals available for taming and more powerful animal companions in general. In addition to common domesticated animals, you can befriend enemies such as lone waste wolves or abandoned razorback cubs. You even unlock the Tame Predator ability, which allows you to turn hostile wild animals against their allies during combat. | |
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Take a Third Option | |
| Wasteland 3 (Video Game) / int_950bbfa7 | comment |
Take a Third Option: The choice of ending seemingly boils down to whether one sides with The Patriarch or Angela Deth which leads to half of your base revolting and a bloody shootout in the streets. If you get your reputation with both the Marshals and the Hundred Families to Loved and talked to both Sheriff Daisy and Gideon Reyes about transitioning power, however, you can simply arrest/exile The Patriarch in a bloodless transition of power. This way you avoid half of your base having to be killed and companions like Lucy and Kwon leaving/being killed while still allowing Arizona to receive the supplies it needs. Instead of siding with the Gippers (which kills Valor and angers the Patriarch) or the Machine commune (which kills the Gippers and stops oil from flowing), one can steal the Reagan AI and hold it hostage. This allows you to arrest Valor and keeps both factions from dying, but both of them end up hating you, and the ending mentions they're stockpiling weapons. In the questline in which November deposes the Patriarch with the help of "Red"/Angela Deth, not so dead after all, the team is told they have to work with Ironclad Cordite, an unrepentant slaver, warlord, and all-around bastard, to take over the Plains Gangs so that the latter can aid the Rangers against the Patriarch. It's the only way, you're told: you need the gangs' manpower, and as bad as they are, the Patriarch is worse. If the player goes along with it unquestioningly every step of the way, it achieves the worst possible ending for everyone: Arizona dies without the Patriarch's supplies, Colorado dies without leadership, and Ironclad Cordite leads an army to go destroy Kansas. Instead, it turns out you don't actually need Cordite or the gangs in order to seize Colorado Springs by force. In fact, what Angela has failed to consider is that you can win the city's factions over to the Rangers' side peacefully — up to and including the Patriarch himself in the November Reigns ending. Notably this is never considered by any of the major NPC leaders, so it's something Team November must come up with on their own, which the player must engineer through careful decision-making across Colorado. In the Steeltown DLC, siding with Markham leads to a final choice of either supporting Markham by brainwashing and re-enslaving the Synths that drive the Calculation Engine, or supporting Blue and the Synths by releasing them from slavery (you can also kill the Synths and blow up the Calculation Engine, but no-one will like that). With very high Kiss Ass and Hard Ass it is instead possible to negotiate a compromise on behalf of the Synths where they are freed from the Calculation Engine and instead voluntarily employed as administrative staff in Steeltown, maintaining Steeltown's machine-driven central planning while avoiding the outright slavery of sentients. | |
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Faux Affably Evil | |
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Victory "Vic" Buchannan counts as well, in a more Faux Affably Evil manner, cheerfully greeting you with a smile after he forced you to go through a gauntlet of his men and the bodies of innocent people he's murdered. He even offers to join your group and, should you refuse, won't fight back and and simply let you cuff him. | |
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Defiant to the End | |
| Wasteland 3 (Video Game) / int_966da803 | comment |
Defiant to the End: The beginning narration says this about the Rangers. Even as they've been ambushed, even as they are being slaughtered left and right, Rangers never stop fighting. Mixing with Face Death with Dignity, this is The Patriarch's fate if you depose him. Whether he's exiled into an unknown fate, stuck in the pillories to freeze to death or simply thrown in prison till he dies from his palsy, he refuses to break or apologize and insists that everything he did was for the good of Colorado. The only time this is averted is if you brought the raider gangs to loot Colorado Springs and tell him you plan to take all you can get. In that case he shoots himself out of despair. | |
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"Not So Different" Remark | |
| Wasteland 3 (Video Game) / int_984ef9ef | comment |
"Not So Different" Remark: You can deliver once of these to Angela Deth. After hearing her frequent rants about how the Patriarch is an evil tyrant who pays off the plains gangs to leave his little nation in Colorado alone, you can point out that she's more or less doing the exact same thing with her whole plan to unite the gangs into a massive army under Cordite's leadership and ensuring they leave Colorado alone by sending them into Kansas. She doesn't see the similarity at all. | |
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Cyborg | |
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Cyborg: The Scar Collectors are an entire faction dedicated to racking up as many cybernetic augmentations as they can, severing perfectly good limbs to do it. Ironclad Cordite is considered notable for ruling them while still being mostly flesh and blood. The player can also choose to get cyborg implants but they take up the same slot as utility items and Gary Wolfe won't give the very valuable combat shooting skill book if you so much as buy the implant. | |
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The Needs of the Many | |
| Wasteland 3 (Video Game) / int_9a3b7208 | comment |
The Needs of the Many: It takes a lot of small compromises and stone-cold resolve to reach the Golden Ending, often sacrificing random people and even smaller communities for the grand cause that's bringing peace to whoever is left standing in Colorado. And your choice of allies for that task is also going to require another batch of similar, moral sacrifices. Try to save everyone on your path and you will get one of the worst endings possible. | |
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Interface Spoiler | |
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Interface Spoiler: The game inherits the "talking head" dialogue feature from Fallout 2, wherein a small number of characters have dialogue accompanied by a lip-synced and (in Wasteland's case) fully motion-captured character model with appropriate sound effects. As in Fallout 2, finding a character with one of these is a hint that they're either a major story figure or a recruitable companion. This is especially true for Fish Lips, a companion introduced without preamble in a side quest. | |
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Alliance Meter | |
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The finale plays out in largely the same areas, but who you're fighting changes dramatically based on your decisions, starting with whether you side with the Patriarch or Angela Deth, heavily impacted by whether or not you allied with Ironclad Cordite and if you chose to bring the gangs along, and then by your reputations with the various factions of Colorado Springs. | |
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Continuity Nod | |
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Continuity Nod: References to Martians and verchitin armor are a reference to the Red Herring entries that were part of the copy protection in the first game's manual. The "Martian" robots at the Tellurium mine turns out to be the work of a regular synth, but verchitin Bio-Armor turns out to be quite real. Angela Deth survived the helicopter crash at the end of Wasteland 2, but has nasty burn scars. You can even make a modest First Aid check upon meeting to note that it must hurt for her to speak. | |
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Late Character Syndrome | |
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Late Character Syndrome: Pizepi joins far later than the other companions, requiring her to be rescued at the Aspen hotel from Victory Buchanan before she can be added to the party. While she has decent stats, including a fully maxed out Automatic Weapons bar, the fact that she comes so late means there's very little time to use her before the player goes after Liberty and initiates the endgame. She also doesn't get any perks from HQ staff that the older party members have unless the player waited to talk with them until after she's recruited. Victory Buchanan is even worse since he has spent skill points on two combat skills and Hard Ass, which the player has likely raised already considering how late you can get him. | |
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Action Pet | |
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Action Pet: Team November can acquire animal companions (ranging from a cat in a Ranger hat to a two-headed ram) with the Animal Whisperer skill. Said animals will provide your rangers with a passive bonus and can attack enemies during battle- and some even have unique abilities, like wolves howling to frighten foes or goat headbutts knocking people out for a turn. The most action-oriented of the pets is the honey badger, found surrounded by corpses and requiring a hefty maxed out Animal Whisperer skill to recruit. It makes up for the investment by having absurd stats and the ability to solo most fights. In a variant on this, quests add additional non-controllable party members who basically function like pets, save they don't give a passive bonus. These include a failed clone, a security drone from a crashed Russian space station, a cute little golden toaster that fires multiple spreads of flaming toast, and Poultron, a Combining Mecha made up of cyborg chickens. However in the "Battle of Steeltown" DLC they will gleefully try to murder the workers you are trying to just subject to Non-Lethal K.O. so if you're doing a Pacifist Run you'll have to dismiss all of them, at least until near the end. The game at least has the curtesy to inform you of this during the DLC specific tutorial. | |
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Gratuitous Latin | |
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Gratuitous Latin: The inexplicable Provost reappears, once again speaking entirely in non-sequitur Latin recitations. This time you find him in a locked storage container in the frozen mall parking lot under the Bizarre. The achievement for finding him is "Quid Agit?!" ("What are you doing (there)?"). | |
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One Riot, One Ranger | |
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One Riot, One Ranger: The Rangers were supposed to have fifty people to accomplish the Patriarch's task of getting his children back, but due to the Dorsey ambush at the beginning, this number is whittled down to two (three if you manage to save Jodie Bell). Even after recovering the team still sticks to a party of six, meaning half a dozen individuals will frequently fight entire gangs of people to accomplish their goals. | |
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Post-Apunkalyptic Armor | |
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Post-Apunkalyptic Armor: A series standard, though not universal. Many armors are mismatched and repurposed military or police gear scavenged from the ruins, heavily customized with added spikes, studs, chains, badges, buttons, and patches, and of course lots of leather. Averted for the carefully preserved suits of PoweredArmor and brand new combat gear the player can find in previous unexplored locations. | |
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Infinity +1 Sword | |
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Infinity +1 Sword: As far as animal companions go the honey badger definitely counts. It has more health than the Golden Scorpitron, a high amount of AP, defense and attack and can be gotten without a fight once the player has radiation shielding 3 and 10 animal whisperer. The only thing that can kill it are status effects like bleed or poison. | |
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Subsystem Damage | |
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Subsystem Damage: In a change from the previous system from Wasteland 2: Director's Cut, Precision Shots can only be made using assault rifles, sniper rifles, and pistols, and only when the Strike meter is at 100%. The accuracy of the shot and chance of inflicting crippling Status Effects is much higher, however, particularly with a sniper rifle and the relevant perk. | |
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Karma Houdini | |
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Karma Houdini: Numerous examples depending on your choices. You can help a slaver regain a lost slave and, assuming you don't shoot her, can even just tell her to leave to do it elsewhere. Tinker from Wasteland 2 survived its confrontation with Team Echo and repaired itself. If you convince it to throw aside its hatred of humanity then it essentially gets away with murdering an entire town and converting both Lexcanium and an innocent girl into machines against their will. Ironclad Cordite if he's busted out of his cell. If you don't fight against the Patriarch he'll simply leave (without giving you the chance to kill him) and the ending states he's making plans to take over Kansas again. Fishlips, if recruited, will go back to his gang in the Patriarch ending to continue his cannibalistic raider ways. Also applies if you have him take over Denver since he and his gang of cannibals get a monopoly on the oil. The Patriarch and Angela Deth in their respective endings. Assuming you side with the Patriarch he receives no punishment for his Shoot the Dog moments unless you count his inevitable physical and mental decay from palsy. Likewise Angela receives no punishment for essentially fracturing Colorado and leaving it vulnerable to the roaming gangs of raiders and cultists. The November Reigns ending is the only one to avert this since the Patriarch is either imprisoned or exiled for his crimes while Colorado isn't fractured. Liberty will escape and create another gang to vie for the throne again assuming The Patriarch is dethroned and Team November leaves Colorado. The ending notes she has a good chance of getting the throne this time around. Averted by Victory Buchanan. Even if the player allows him into the party the ending states that he tries to create another gang only to be force-fed a clown burger by the Payasos and died from poisoning. Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy. | |
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Alternate History | |
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Alternate History: In the Wasteland background story, the Soviet Union never broke up and the Cold War turned hot in 1998 after Americans got duped by their own AI and struck first under false alert. Also later on you find out there were multiple assassination attempts on President Reagan, enough to justify trying to give him a Presidential limo that was basically KITT from Knight Rider. | |
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And I Must Scream | |
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And I Must Scream: Morningstar was a self-aware AI left in an unfinished body before the bombs fell. It's spent more than 150 years unable to do more than listen to the radio and dwell on its inadequacies. When the Rangers encounter it, it begs for a Mercy Kill. | |
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All Hail the Great God Mickey! | |
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All Hail the Great God Mickey!: A gang named the Gippers in Denver have taken to worshiping Ronald Reagan as a god. Their "god" is an AI modelled after the president in the last days before the Apocalypse, and their priesthood models themselves after Reagan's wife Nancy... as well as Reagan's movies, being fond of cowboy mannerisms. Hilariously, they also seem to have found meme pictures of Reagan as well, and don't know enough to separate them out from the reality; one portrait in their mansion is of Reagan riding a Velociraptor, an image familiar to anyone who's spent time on the Internet. Morningstar, since he knew Reagan, is driven to spluttering fury over the stupidity of the whole thing, and points out the man would hate to be worshipped since he was a devout Christian. | |
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Combining Mecha | |
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Gather all the cyborg chickens and they'll assemble themselves into Poultron. | |
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Soundtrack Dissonance | |
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Soundtrack Dissonance: Most battles utilize ambient or techno tracks, but the boss fights are another matter. Cloying Christian standards such as "Are You Washed in the Blood" and "Down in the Valley to Pray" are arranged to be dark and drum-heavy with jangling guitars — making them suitable to the context in their new form, but with the added cognitive dissonance of knowing where those songs originally came from. "Battle Hymn of the Republic" is also a pretty ironic song to be playing if you intend to actually free Ironclad Cordite. A straight version of "America the Beautiful", accompanied by electric organ, plays as an animated statue of Ronald Reagan annihilates members of a psychotic hippie cult with his Eye Beams. The DLC gets into this as well, with Battle for Steeltown using a minor-key version of the pro-union hymn "Power in the Union" for a boss battle that's essentially a union bust though players are allowed to side with the workers on both occasions, playing it straight instead, while siding with Steeltown's odious chief of security will net you a minor-key and very sarcastic-sounding cover of Harry Nilsson's "Best Friend" instead. Cult of the Holy Detonation uses a relentlessly cheery country rendition of "Making our Dreams Come True" for its final battle against a hideous invulnerable mutant who is planning to drench Colorado in radiation. | |
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Future Imperfect | |
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Future Imperfect: Played straight by some of the kookier groups, such as the Gippers (who literally worship Reagan, in AI form), but otherwise averted, possibly since it hasn't been so long since the apocalypse. For instance, DJ R.I.P. is perfectly aware that Ghostbusters (1984) was just a movie. | |
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Final Boss | |
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Final Boss: Either Angela Deth or the Patriarch depending on which ending you pick. | |
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Arc Villain | |
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One of the synths Wolfe has you hunt is Tinker, the Arc Villain for Damonta — after being destroyed by the Rangers, her drones dragged her off and repaired her, though the damage is still quite visible. She's living in Denver International's Machine Commune, and it's actually possible, with a high enough Kiss Ass, to convince her that peace between humans and machines is possible, in spite of what Matthias taught her. | |
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I Choose to Stay | |
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I Choose to Stay: This can be one of your choices in the ending. Rather than return home to Arizona or set out for new frontiers, Team November can remain in Colorado to continue assisting the Patriarch if they side with him (which opens the door to them eventually taking it over in his stead once he dies, or by electing to become the new ruler of the state if they ousted him. | |
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For the Evulz | |
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Nobody can begin to guess why the Rangers are palling around with Vic Buchanan if you recruit him after Aspen. You're never really given the option of offering any sensible explanations in dialogue, either. Perhaps it boils down to the sheer entertainment value. | |
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Pragmatic Hero | |
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Pragmatic Hero: No matter how much of a do-gooder you want to be in this game, you're still going to have to make a lot of harsh choices if you want to do what's best for both Arizona and Colorado. Even getting the Golden Ending requires this, as you need to cozy up to both the Hundred Families and the Marshals at the expense of the refugees. | |
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Creepy Children Singing | |
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Patriotic anthems such as "America the Beautiful" and "Battle Hymn of the Republic" take on a bitter or even tragic twist. There are three versions of the former: a Creepy Children Singing version as the Patriarch lays you to waste if you make the mistake of attacking him the first time you meet (without cheats); the lounge-y guitar-and-organ version that plays during the fights with or against the Gippers, whether defending the Denver Capitol Building from the Godfishers or fighting your way out of it with the Reagan AI; and a country-western version that plays during the final fight with Vic's inner circle in Aspen. The latter is given a slow, intense gospel cover and plays over two optional 'boss fights': The first being if you choose to extrajudicially gun down a band of poorly armed teenagers and the second if you choose to spring Iron Cordite from prison, who is later revealed to be a brutal Wasteland Warlord and a slaver. | |
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Face–Heel Turn | |
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Face–Heel Turn: Team November can pull this off in one ending by deciding to go full raider and abandon Arizona, caring only about themselves and what they can have. They can even join Ironclad Cordite in his plan to conquer and enslave Kansas or offer their services to Liberty (assuming Lucia isn't in the party since she'll force a fight). | |
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I Did What I Had to Do | |
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I Did What I Had to Do: If you try to call out the Patriarch on his less-than-moral actions he'll state he made the choice available to him and asks the Rangers what they would have done differently. The player is free to decide whether they agree with him or not. | |
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Scales | |
| Wasteland 3 (Video Game) / int_b3b8328e | comment |
The DLC gets into this as well, with Battle for Steeltown using a minor-key version of the pro-union hymn "Power in the Union" for a boss battle that's essentially a union bust though players are allowed to side with the workers on both occasions, playing it straight instead, while siding with Steeltown's odious chief of security will net you a minor-key and very sarcastic-sounding cover of Harry Nilsson's "Best Friend" instead. Cult of the Holy Detonation uses a relentlessly cheery country rendition of "Making our Dreams Come True" for its final battle against a hideous invulnerable mutant who is planning to drench Colorado in radiation. | |
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Your Days Are Numbered | |
| Wasteland 3 (Video Game) / int_b43dfc8d | comment |
Your Days Are Numbered: The Patriarch is already an old man in his 70's and he's also been diagnosed with palsy that will kill him in as little as three years. Technically should apply to Scotchmo as well, since he's diagnosed with late stage liver disease, but it never comes up and doesn't seem to stop him from (somehow) being an effective Ranger. | |
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Too Dumb to Live | |
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Too Dumb to Live: The game is very hands-off with what you make your characters do, and allows you the freedom to choose what you want them to do. This includes making some very poor decisions, like shooting a fellow squadmate in the back to the point of incapacitation for absolutely no reason, among other things. Go ahead. Attack The Patriarch in the beginning, immediately after you regain control of your characters. See what happens. | |
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Hub Under Attack | |
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Hub Under Attack: In the endgame, fighting breaks out across the game's Hub City of Colorado Springs, and the Desert Rangers are forced to choose between remaining loyal to the Patriarch, or joining Angela Deth's rebels and overthrowing the Patriarch's regime. Alternatively, the Rangers can choose to throw their lot in with the brutal slaver warlord Ironclad Cordite and lead the plains gangs to Rape, Pillage, and Burn the city. The game even has an achievement, "Wasteland Reaper", awarded for killing everyone in downtown Colorado Springs. | |
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The Don | |
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The Don: Faran Brygo, the boss of the Little Vegas casino and brothel, wears a stereotypical pinstriped mafioso suit, smokes a big cigar, and controls organized crime in Colorado Springs through lieutenants he calls "capos". You can even find a tape that teaches people to speak fluent "mobster" in Little Vegas. | |
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One Stat to Rule Them All | |
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Attributes are more balanced and now offer a variety of benefits, with Intelligence no longer being One Stat to Rule Them All and Strength no longer being the Dump Stat you (melee fighters not withstanding) grudgingly put points into to deal with the annoyances of encumbrance. Strength is now valuable for any character who is not a Sniper due to giving you a decent batch of extra Hit Points and the ability to wear armor that will keep you alive. | |
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Sadistic Choice | |
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Sadistic Choice: Similar to the Highpool/Ag Center choice from Wasteland 2, the moment you get out of Colorado Springs, you're faced with the choice of whether to save the lives of an innocent family of farmsteaders (they did ask first) or a shipment of Powered Armor for the blatant corrupt Colorado Marshals — whose approval is your best hope of sending help back home to Arizona. The stakes are slightly smaller, in this case, but the theme is set: there isn't always going to be a Golden Path that lets you get everything you want and save everyone you're trying to save. How can you leave a tyrant like the Patriarch in power? But how can you remove him without causing worse damage in the short term, including, once again, the fact that Arizona needs his help? General Woodson points out that the latter choice is not as binary as it appears — the Rangers can re-examine their relationship with the man in the future without burning bridges in the present. And subverted in that there is a Golden Ending in the form of the "November Reigns" scenario. | |
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Sad Battle Music | |
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Sad Battle Music: The game used repurposed classic tunes, from Battle Hymn of the Republic to Everybody Have Fun Tonight during several key battles, which, while keeping the lyrics, are made to be more melancholic than what those songs originally were. | |
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Berserk Button | |
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Berserk Button: The Patriarch will not tolerate anyone inquiring about his personal health. Doing so in your first conversation with him will get you a verbal lashing and a hit on your reputation with his marshals. The Ronald Reagan AI hates communists with a vengeance. To wit, it's perfectly fine with letting a member of a violent gang who murdered, dismembered, and skinned several of Reagan's followers go, only to immediately smite a robot from the neighboring Robot Commune just for saying "communist." | |
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Undignified Death | |
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Undignified Death: Victory's ending if he's allowed to join the party. He tries to create another gang, only for the Payasos to force-feed him a clown burger that kills him. Even his death if you attack him counts, since he blows his legs off with his own grenade without the player fighting him. | |
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Home Base | |
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Home Base: The Patriarch gives the Rangers the derelict remains of Peterson Air Force Base to serve as the new Ranger HQ in Colorado. Throughout the game, more ranger recruits and other staff members will join the base. | |
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Mission Control | |
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Mission Control: Local boy Corporal Marcelo Gonzales takes on radio duty for Team November early on. Unlike the previous game, however, he's not your superior officer, so he doesn't give orders or hand out promotions. November are their own COs, and with General Woodson largely out of radio contact on the other side of the Rockies, all major decisions are made at your own discretion. | |
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The '80s | |
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'80s hits are repurposed and transposed to different genres for maximum irony, such as the normal fast-paced "Land of Confusion" by Genesis being turned into a somber, atmospheric Softer and Slower Cover, while "Everybody Have Fun Tonight" by Wang Chung goes from dance track to mournful country ballad as the backing song for the Cannibal Jamboree. | |
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Irony | |
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Irony: Battle Hymn of the Republic, a song about punishing the wicked and an inspiration for civil rights activists, plays while you free Ironclad Cordite, a notorious raider and slaver. | |
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Boom, Headshot! | |
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Boom, Headshot!: One not uncommon outcome of gunplay, with targeted Subsystem Damage available (albeit only with rifles and pistols when the Strike meter is full), in classic Wasteland tradition; headshots do more damage, with a percentage chance to do even more, rather than inflicting Status Effects like other targeted shots. Also appears in-story: what is ostensibly the game's first boss Killed Midsentence by a sniper bullet that removes a good third of his skull and splatters it all over the screen. | |
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Teeth-Clenched Teamwork | |
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Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: It's clear that some of the companions don't exactly get along. Lucia looks down at Kwon for being a Dirty Cop, while he calls her a pain in the ass to her face, for example. (They also have a dialogue in which he tries to flirt with her and gets shut down.) Victory Buchanan and Fishlips have it worst since practically no one likes them, and Lucia suggests shooting Victory even after he's been recruited. | |
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Mooks | |
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Faran Brygo and his mooks dress like movie mobsters, in hats and suits with tommy guns, complete with stagey, stereotypical Joisey accents and Rat Pack patter. None of them having been further east than Colorado, they learned it all from old tapes. | |
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Bestiality Is Depraved | |
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Bestiality Is Depraved: The root of two things in the game - a goat prostitute named Joker you can hire in the Little Vegas to gain a +4 Penetration buff for 20 minutes (complete with two different messages to better imply how it, uh, "services" characters of the two different sexes), and being able to spread a rumor to Nash Parker in co-op asking if it was safe that the other player's squad had sex with goats without protection. | |
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Big Bad Wannabe | |
| Wasteland 3 (Video Game) / int_c67af1b0 | comment |
Big Bad Wannabe: Victory and Valor. Valor is simply being used as a pawn of the Gippers and they don't hesitate to essentially kill him to give the Reagan AI a body. Ironically enough, arresting him is probably his best outcome. Victory, while a dangerous mass murderer, has little chance of actually invading Colorado Springs with his gang and ends up dying an Undignified Death after being force fed a clown burger by the Payasos in any ending where he's not arrested or killed. | |
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Religious Robot | |
| Wasteland 3 (Video Game) / int_c72eea14 | comment |
Religious Robot: Comes in a few flavors. The Morningstar AI was designed to have ideals compatible with those of Ronald Reagan, including a belief in the Christian God and Heaven. It confesses that, as a machine, it probably doesn't have a soul, but it was programmed to be hopeful about its chances to go to Heaven after death and finally meet Reagan. Null Stack and his scavengers seem to have developed their own religion independently, focusing around a "Great Programmer" god figure who will initiate a "Great Reboot," perfecting all organic life and machines in the process. | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: It wouldn't be Wasteland without '80s references! A massive shout-out to Knight Rider in the form of Morningstar, an AI designed to drive the most advanced presidential limousine for Reagan. Countless quotes from the real President Ronald Reagan, with references to his careers in both Washington and Hollywood. The Gippers take their name from Reagan's nickname of the Gipper, which in turn is a reference to his role as George Gipp in Knute Rockne, All American. One of their holy texts is called the Book of Bonzo. The Reagan AI's appearance as a polygonal Huge Holographic Head on a screen, his rainbow-tinted wireframe/shifting multicolored screen-saver background, and his constant distorted robot stammering are all references to the title character of Max Headroom, another '80s standby. As usual, the descriptions of items are filled with countless references to other works, for instance a book that proposes to teach you how to "Turn Your Jan into a Marcia" or a lunchbox that says "These bears left a stein on our memory" as a reference to the Pop Culture Urban Legend of the Mandela Effect. Gather all the cyborg chickens and they'll assemble themselves into Poultron. Collect all the golden toaster pieces and the golden hammer and your character will craft the fabled golden toaster. Take it to the secret shrine of the age-old fraternity of Toaster Repairmen and it's brought to life as a follower named Courageous — yes, a brave little toaster. Rollan Giff, pitmaster of the Cannibal Jamboree, is named after Roland Gift, lead singer of New Wave band Fine Young Cannibals. David Steeler and Andy Coss are bassist David Steele and guitarist Andy Cox, and Parry Marlin and Grahaminahamham are touring members Martin Parry and Graeme Hamilton. The record on the player is labelled "Dapper Youthful Cannibals". Someone was a fan. Billy is a common enough name for a (billy) goat, but having a second head named Jean makes the Hoons' two-headed goat Billy (&) Jean a Michael Jackson reference. The hidden achievement "November Reigns", awarded for managing a peaceful transition of power from the Patriarch to the Rangers, is a reference to the Guns N' Roses song "November Rain" from 1991's Use Your Illusion I. A rather obscure one: A fortune teller can give your party some items with the phrase "May it be of no use." The exact same phrase was used by Hakunin the shaman in Fallout 2 when asked for healing powder. In the Machine Commune, a group of robots are standing around a (frozen dead) tortoise. Said tortoise is on its back. The robots are discussing what they should do about it, but none of them are helping. Why aren't they helping? Early in the Steeltown DLC content the party is subject to a series of tests, one of which is an ocular test. Said test involves a display of variously colored lights, and the player being asked how many lights they see. Of course, "There are four lights!" is an option. The Steeltown DLC also features an NPC named Newt who can be encouraged to infiltrate the facility via the ducts. Just to establish that this is not coincidence, she will at one point comment on the rats by saying that "They mostly come out at night. Mostly." Then you meet her mother, Ellen, who mentions her friend, Bishop. Also in Steeltown is an old rusted-out police car emblazoned with the number 54. Near said police car is an old Volkswagen Beetle marked with the number 63 (maybe a relative of Herbie?). The Steeltown work assignments to repeatedly tighten and loosen the same nut are based on the short story "The Good Work" by Theodore L. Thomas. After you try Masato’s pork noodles in the Bizarre, he will happily exclaim “a man who never eats pork is never a whole man!â€� In a random dialogue, two of the servitors in the Ranger HQ's command center dispute which of them is the "prime" servitor. Greatski tells them to knock it off because "you can't fight in here, this is the War Room!" The Cult of the Holy Detonation DLC, taking place in the legendary Cheyenne Mountain Complex, centers around an immensely powerful piece of technology that holds a giant glowing energy source within a spinning metal ring... well, several rings, but still. In addition, the Holy Detonation cultists fight primarily with radiation spitting submachine guns built out of what looks like FN P90s. | |
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Retirony | |
| Wasteland 3 (Video Game) / int_c8a8c595 | comment |
Retirony: Parodied by Victory Buchanan, who does Say My Name and Big "NO!" over how "Clarence" was two days away from retirement when you meet him in Aspen after "Clarence"'s head falls off...when it's entirely obvious that "Clarence" is a brutalized corpse who was already mostly decapitated. | |
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My Species Doth Protest Too Much | |
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My Species Doth Protest Too Much: The synth collective in Steeltown. While some of them agreed with Cochise, their personalities were overwritten by his code. After Cochise lost, they concluded that Cochise must have been wrong. They later came across the mad synth Dos-Teh-Seh, and refused to help her. | |
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Nothing Is Scarier | |
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Nothing Is Scarier: The Abandoned Oil Well location has a circle of "juvvies", teenagers in gas masks (likely a Continuity Nod to the teenagers who lived and died in Highpool during the Rangers original visit there), standing around some sort of huge Tesla coil. They don't answer when you try speaking to them, but they all turn to watch you in perfect unison wherever you go on the map. They don't seem to do anything... until you try pulling a weapon to attack them, at which point the area fills up with noxious gas and your party passes out. When you come to, the juvvies are gone and all that's left of the coil is a pile of dust and debris containing the Exoskeleton Helmet and Purist Patty Creepy Doll (+5% damage vs. mutants). | |
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Wacky Wayside Tribe | |
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Wacky Wayside Tribe: The Bizarre, a fortified bazaar entrenched in the ruins of an underground shopping mall, and one of the first major locations you're likely to visit due to its low level, proximity to Colorado Springs, and importance to some important early sidequests. Despite being a pretty important part of the backstory (the Monster Army is one of the most important and infamous of the Patriarch's conquests, and the Bizarre is the economic center of the region), the location and its quests barely affect the main plot at all. This is likely due to their inclusion being a crowdfunding stretch goal; by necessity they were likely written in a way that would make them easy to remove if the goal wasn't reached. | |
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Lovable Rogue | |
| Wasteland 3 (Video Game) / int_d013cd12 | comment |
Recruitable companion Marshal Darius Kwon (technically ex-Marshal, though it's a bit hazy as he was tapped to report officially to the Patriarch by Buchanan himself) manages to be both a cop and a Lovable Rogue thanks to the corruption of the Colorado Springs police force. He plays fast and loose with the law and isn't averse to taking bribes and looking the other way for what are technically crimes, but his heart is generally in the right place and he's very much A Lighter Shade of Grey compared to Daisy and her loyalists — though he's fine with most of it and doesn't see it as his job to try and fix things. He can live with the status quo, given what he sees as the alternative of leaving the door open to the plains gangs, and doesn't envy the Patriarch for having to make the hard decisions. He'll also leave your party if you try to attack an innocent person. | |
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The Apunkalypse | |
| Wasteland 3 (Video Game) / int_d082b66b | comment |
The Apunkalypse: Your rangers can have punk spikes, mohawks, dyed hair, and tattoos as well as post-Apunkalyptic leather and studs, with many recruits being drawn from wasteland tribes where those styles are common. Somewhat justified in-universe by this world's Cold War escalating in the mid-'80s, freezing much of fashion and culture in place until the bombs fell in 1998. | |
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Schmuck Bait | |
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Schmuck Bait: Go ahead. Press that Big Red Button at the top of the Steeltown. The fact that the save feature has been disabled can't possible mean anything. | |
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Hoist by His Own Petard | |
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Hoist by His Own Petard: Choosing to kill (rather than arrest) Victory Buchanan at the first opportunity will have him toss a smoke grenade...only for him to realize seconds later it's very much an explosive one. Cue his legs being blown off. | |
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What the Hell, Hero? | |
| Wasteland 3 (Video Game) / int_d39e327f | comment |
What the Hell, Hero?: Team November will almost certainly end up on the receiving end from numerous NPCs, no matter what your choices. Nobody can begin to guess why the Rangers are palling around with Vic Buchanan if you recruit him after Aspen. You're never really given the option of offering any sensible explanations in dialogue, either. Perhaps it boils down to the sheer entertainment value. If you opt to bring the gangs with you to Colorado Springs during the endgame, even Cordite himself is surprised. He warns you he won't be able to control them, and pretty much everyone else turns on you, including most of the NPC recruits back at HQ. Vic is delighted, Gonzalez and a few generic recruits seem to assume you must know what you're doing, but otherwise only the most evil of Token Evil Teammates (Fishlips, Gary Wolfe) stick by you (and Scotchmo, who seems not to have been paying attention), while most others rue the day they ever met you and try to kill you. Pizepi washes her hands of you and makes tracks back to Arizona. A pair of cultists in the Children of the Holy Detonation DLC will use the intercom at Cheyenne station to constantly decry Team November for whatever you chose to do during the game. Since they're hostile, they'll basically chew you out for all outcomes of quests until they run out of things to criticise you over. | |
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Canada, Eh? | |
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Canada, Eh?: If you allow Blue to remove Di's Restraining Bolt in in the Battle for Steeltown DLC she turns out to be Canadian and switches to a Canadian accent (although it sounds more Minnesotan, donchaknow). | |
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And Your Reward Is Edible | |
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And Your Reward Is Edible: The reward for helping Masato find a pack of pre-war Instant Ramen Noodles is stir-fried pork; he will also agree to go to Ranger HQ to provide his cooking skills for the rangers once this is done. Also, after getting the "Breakfast Bandit" perk, you get a slice of toast every time you repair a toaster machine, which is more incidentally useful than anything else. | |
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Hypocrite | |
| Wasteland 3 (Video Game) / int_d52d28b6 | comment |
Hypocrite: Angela Deth abandoned the mission to get supplies for Arizona because they would’ve been ‘stained’ due to the Patriarch being a tyrant and that Rangers were always meant to fight against those. This doesn’t stop her from allying with Ironclad Cordite, a raider and slaver who killed and enslaved many, and will likely continue doing so if allowed to continue his "destiny" in Kansas. Lucia actually calls her out on this if present and she simply says the situation isn’t ideal. Of course, she had a similar moment in Wasteland 2 where she cold-bloodedly murders the guy who ran away from a fight in which her lover died despite the fact that he wasn't a fighter, yet would start a fight with you if you didn't do everything on the up and up. | |
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Anti-Frustration Features | |
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Anti-Frustration Features: Looting one body's "loot bag" will let you loot every dead body in a large area, saving you a lot of time There is an option to "sell Junk" at every vendor, letting you offload tons of loot instantly Animal companions and tag-alongs like The Provost will not trigger traps and can't be seen by enemies, which makes stealth actually possible You can use any skill options in any conversation as long as at least one ranger has the neccessary skill ranks even if they're on the other side of the map, in addition if all your rangers are selected you can quickly order one to use lockpicking, nerd stuff, explosives or sneaky shit to unlock/hack/disarm traps and disable alarms and the most qualified ranger will do it, though pathfinding sometimes messes that up When ordering your Kodiak to move in combat, your rangers and allies will automatically move out of its way without wasting Action Points, even if they have used them all up for the turn | |
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Screw This, I'm Outta Here | |
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Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Depending on the ending you choose various companions will leave the party with no chance to avoid it. Non-evil teammates will also leave if you try to kill innocent people while they're in the group. | |
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Action Girl | |
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Action Girl: Apart from player created Rangers, there’s Lucia Wesson, an earnest, sheltered young woman from a wealthy family... whose background is nevertheless listed as Gunslinger. Then there's mechanic/sniper Private Jodie Bell if Team November saves her in the prologue... and returning companion Pizepi of Team Echo, a scientist by trade who starts out with a maxed-out Automatic Weapons skill. Non-player character examples include Team November's doomed commander Major Vera Prasad, who dies in the initial Dorsey ambush; veteran lawwoman Sheriff Daisy of the Colorado Marshals; Liberty Buchanan, the most dangerous of the Patriarch’s children; and Previous Player-Character Cameo Angela Deth. | |
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Red Herring | |
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References to Martians and verchitin armor are a reference to the Red Herring entries that were part of the copy protection in the first game's manual. The "Martian" robots at the Tellurium mine turns out to be the work of a regular synth, but verchitin Bio-Armor turns out to be quite real. | |
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Chekhov's Gunman | |
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Chekhov's Gunman: When you first arrive at your base and talk to the stoned-out prisoner locked up in the brig, he'll mention a "smiling lady" who trades in certain merchandise. She later shows up your base with a request from you, and the merchandise she deals in are slaves. | |
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Yuki-onna | |
| Wasteland 3 (Video Game) / int_dec92951 | comment |
Yuki Onna: Unbelievably, an entity quite like one of these is hanging around the Denver Ruins. Spawning only if at least one Godfisher camp has been cleared and Denver re-entered, there is one standing near the frozen container and safe in the corner between the camps. The mysteriously-strange woman with blue skin is called the Woman in White; all interactions with her, save talking to her and leaving her alone, will cause her to disappear in a blur of snow, and the entire party to get the Chills condition. | |
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Dystopia Justifies the Means | |
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Dystopia Justifies the Means: Liberty's grand plan is to sweep into Colorado Springs with the combined might of the plains gangs at her back, replacing her father's relatively free society with brutal serfdom. As the Patriarch says, she wants to rule, not govern. The same can be said for Ironclad Cordite's plans for an empire in Kansas in which he would enslave everyone to weak to fight against him. | |
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Optional Boss | |
| Wasteland 3 (Video Game) / int_e0606d52 | comment |
Optional Boss: Scorpitrons, which wander the Colorado map, but don't have to be fought to complete the game. There's also one that depends on a choice made during character creation: if you take the Background Goat Killer, then there is a chance while driving around Colorado to fight the Hell Goat, a gigantic, fire-breathing demon goat, accompanied by tinier demon goats. | |
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Cruel Mercy | |
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Cruel Mercy: Arresting people and sending them to the Marshals. You spare their lives only for them to be judged and sentenced to the pillories for a slow, painful freezing death. | |
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Manchild | |
| Wasteland 3 (Video Game) / int_e313b4e7 | comment |
If you opt to kill the Patriarch's children rather than arrest them, before taking the fight back to the Patriarch himself... couldn't happen to a nicer family. Liberty and Vic are both unrepentant mass murderers, Liberty a warmonger and Vic a supervillain-level sadist. Valor's the only one who hasn't got it coming for doing worse, and whether or not he deserves it, he's a condescending, cowardly, unpleasant Manchild with whom the player is unlikely to sympathize. And for all the Patriarch's speeches, he's got a lot of blood on his hands, and the way he talks to you and others when he's not behind a microphone show he's calculating and ruthless... even if his noble intentions are genuine. | |
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Authority Equals Asskicking | |
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Authority Equals Asskicking: The Patriarch and Liberty are the leaders of Colorado and raider coalition, respectively, and are definitely their toughest fighters. Team November is also the leader of the Colorado Rangers and will personally fight against the nasties of the wasteland to accomplish their goals. | |
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Family Theme Naming | |
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Family Theme Naming: The Buchanans. The Patriarch, Saul Buchanan, is the son of Isaiah and the grandson of Abraham, all Biblical names, but he broke with tradition when naming his own children, each named after an all-American virtue: daughter Liberty and sons Victory and Valor. | |
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Expy | |
| Wasteland 3 (Video Game) / int_e5421161 | comment |
Expy: Peek and Poke, the robot characters featured in the assorted menus, are a decomposite version of Fallout's Vault Boy. They play the same role as him, being in-universe mascot characters who also provide humorous visual aids for all the stats and skills. | |
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Nerf | |
| Wasteland 3 (Video Game) / int_e545e190 | comment |
Nerf: Using an explosive or sniper to start a battle is no longer a Game-Breaker. Sure, you get the opening salvo, but that character will have the action points removed on their turn essentially just treating them as having taken their turn early. Also, only ONE character can shoot first in this manner, preventing the ability to simply have seven Rangers all shoot at the same enemy to down them before battle begins. The main advantage of doing this is that it guarantees your party will go first- this is still advantageous, but it's not as overwhelming as it was in the previous game. There is no longer one build that is simply superior all the time. In Wasteland 2, the best possible team was a squad entirely decked out in Assault Rifles, save for a single Sniper whose job it was to initiate combat. Or, which was even more broken, perform a volley salvo of burst fire from all those assault rifles on a single, tough enemy, easily killing it without any chance to even react, not to mention retaliate. In this game, while Assault Rifles and Sniper Rifles still have their solid place, they are just one option among many. | |
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Insistent Terminology | |
| Wasteland 3 (Video Game) / int_e563bf09 | comment |
Insistent Terminology: The sentient machines found in the game often have very specific quirks in how they speak about their kind and humanity, particularly in contrast. The Machine Commune prefer to be known as "machine intelligences," because "artificial intelligence" implies that they are not truly sentient. Likewise, Religious Robot Null Stack insists on referring to all sentient beings as "machines," with robots being "inorganic machines," and conventional lifeforms referred to as "organic machines." | |
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Talking the Monster to Death | |
| Wasteland 3 (Video Game) / int_e92841f | comment |
Open battle or Talking the Monster to Death are both options for the Final Boss, whether that's the Patriarch or Angela Deth, and the reasons you give for fighting as well as how you deal with them once they're defeated can also change the ending. You can usually spare or execute the Patriarch, but if you brought Cordite and the gangs to CO Springs and told him you were only in it for "all you could grab", Buchanan is so consumed with despair at having lost everything he's built that he shoots himself. You can only avoid fighting Angela Deth with Hard Ass 10 check, and you can only convince the Patriarch to spare her with Kiss Ass 10; otherwise you're forced to fight her to the death. If you brought the gangs with you, you also have the choice of whether or not to let them plunder the city, which determines whether or not Colorado survives and rebuilds. | |
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Dirty Cop | |
| Wasteland 3 (Video Game) / int_eb251937 | comment |
Dirty Cop: The Colorado Marshals, and everyone knows it. They openly take bribes and brag about their Police Brutality in front of you, under the guise of a necessary evil to keep order in Colorado. Sheriff Daisy seems to be genuinely loyal to the Patriarch, or at least believes someone like him is necessary to project strength in the region, and doesn't seem interested in power or money for their own sake. She is, however, a brutal authoritarian who believes violence and intimidation are the best way to uphold the law. Recruitable companion Marshal Darius Kwon (technically ex-Marshal, though it's a bit hazy as he was tapped to report officially to the Patriarch by Buchanan himself) manages to be both a cop and a Lovable Rogue thanks to the corruption of the Colorado Springs police force. He plays fast and loose with the law and isn't averse to taking bribes and looking the other way for what are technically crimes, but his heart is generally in the right place and he's very much A Lighter Shade of Grey compared to Daisy and her loyalists — though he's fine with most of it and doesn't see it as his job to try and fix things. He can live with the status quo, given what he sees as the alternative of leaving the door open to the plains gangs, and doesn't envy the Patriarch for having to make the hard decisions. He'll also leave your party if you try to attack an innocent person. Frank Pappas, a down-and-out former lawman living in obscurity, is made out to be the worst of them, but this is subverted if you let him join the Rangers — it seems like he was forced out because he was too disgusted by his fellow officers to keep letting it slide. | |
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Jerkass | |
| Wasteland 3 (Video Game) / int_eb8ec7c8 | comment |
Jerkass: A lot of them. In a frozen wasteland filled with horrible creatures and even worse people it's to be expected. The player character can be a particularly nasty one, ranging from taunts and insults to gunning someone down for no good reason. | |
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Evil Old Folks | |
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Evil Old Folks: Judging by his portrait Ironclad Cordite is getting up there in years but he’s still a notorious raider and slaver with a plan to take over all of Kansas with a united raider gang. The Patriarch may or may not count as well depending on your viewpoint. Regardless of what one thinks of him he’s definitely a tyrant with a lot of blood — innocent and guilty — on his hands. | |
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Song Parody | |
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Song Parody: In Aspen, Vic sings his personal rendition of Patsy Cline's "I Didn't Want To Love You", titled "I Didn't Want To Kill You". | |
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But Now I Must Go | |
| Wasteland 3 (Video Game) / int_f0fe7e80 | comment |
But Now I Must Go: Assuming you achieve your goal of getting aid to Arizona and choose to stay in Colorado both Pizepi and Jodie Bell will go back home to be with their family or the mainline Ranger forces. Parodied by Scotchmo who also leaves and is rumored to be drinking in Kansas but knowing him he likely didn't even realize he'd done it. Likewise, this can also apply to Team November. If they do what the Patriarch wants, he will offer them a home in Colorado and more permanent employment by his side. However, they can turn him down to simply return home. | |
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Hugh Mann | |
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Hugh Mann: Long John. He is obviously a synth, with the only disguise he has being the Richard Nixon mask he tries to pass off as his own face. When confronted about it, he assures you, fellow human, that he has dreams just like you do, such as having a nightmare where he forgot to study for a test in high school. | |
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Mercy Kill | |
| Wasteland 3 (Video Game) / int_f3626b09 | comment |
Mercy Kill: You have the option of doing this to your commanding officer at the beginning of the game, giving her a quick and painless death by either using medicine to euthanize her or just shooting her in the head. You can try to help her, but being as her guts are spilling out, it won't do any good. Or you could just be a dick and leave her to die painfully alone. | |
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Easily Forgiven | |
| Wasteland 3 (Video Game) / int_f36c4f98 | comment |
Easily Forgiven: Oddly, if the player goes to the Patriarch's secret bunker/prison black site, likely killing almost every merc inside along with possibly two of his valuable prisoners, then tells the Patriarch about it, he just sternly warns them not to do it again and never brings it up afterwards. Liberty in the Patriarch ending, to an extent. She's returned back to the palace, albeit restrained at all times, while the Patriarch tries to be a family with her again. Victory and Valor don't get this mercy and presumably, since they aren't mentioned in the ending, remain imprisoned. | |
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Arbitrary Headcount Limit | |
| Wasteland 3 (Video Game) / int_f3cf30d9 | comment |
Arbitrary Headcount Limit: The party must contain no more than four custom-made Rangers and no less than two. You can have up to six total characters in the party, including 2-4 of the in-game companions. | |
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Earn Your Happy Ending | |
| Wasteland 3 (Video Game) / int_f64a9cf7 | comment |
Earn Your Happy Ending: The November Reigns ending is the most difficult ending to get with around 1~2 percent of players having gotten it. It requires getting oil back from the Gippers (meaning either you hold their AI hostage or sacrifice Valor) while getting a Loved reputation from both the Hundred Families (arresting Mama Cotter is a requirement) and the Marshals, meaning one mistake and the ending is inaccessible. It does, however, lead to the most idealistic outcome with the Patriarch punished for his crimes, democracy being re-introduced, Arizona getting its much needed supplies and the Rangers expanding now that they have a presence in two areas. | |
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Downer Beginning | |
| Wasteland 3 (Video Game) / int_f88f2449 | comment |
Downer Beginning: The game starts with the Ranger expedition to Colorado being ambushed and almost wiped out. Out of the fifty Rangers dispatched from Arizona, only two or three (if you save Jodie Bell) manage to reach Colorado Springs. | |
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Team Pet | |
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Team Pet: Major Tomcat the is this for Team November, being an affectionate cat who wears a cowboy hat, likes cigarettes, and can be recruited by your squad in the prologue without knowing the Animal Handling skill. If you have multiple characters with Animal Handling, then you can have multiple team pets, who confer minor benefits to the Rangers and attack enemies in battle. | |
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Player Character | |
| Wasteland 3 (Video Game) / int_fbc074c3 | comment |
Player Character: You start out with two Rangers, either custom-made or chosen from the ready-made options; the latter have unique background traits you cannot select any other way. Unlike companions, these characters are unvoiced and entirely controlled by the player — they won't leave, and while they have full access to the entire party's highest available skills during dialogue, they can also be swapped out for alternate recruits at any time while at HQ, making it somewhat hazy where Team November as a unit ends and leadership of the Arizona Rangers in Colorado begins. The pregen character duos cannot be customized, but have unique background traits, trinkets, and party banter amongst themselves. | |
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Well-Intentioned Extremist | |
| Wasteland 3 (Video Game) / int_fd4f8299 | comment |
Well-Intentioned Extremist: The Patriarch's hands are by no means clean — he's a clear tyrant who associates with some the worst people in Colorado, and if two murderous children and three dead wives are any indication, he's not much better to those closest to him. Nevertheless he really has achieved something closer to bringing back the America of old than anyone else in the wasteland, on a far greater scale, and out of a seemingly genuine desire to see the majority of his people safe and happy — even if that means others suffer unjustly along the way. In the ending where you fight to remove him from power, you can refute his methods or the idea that he's the only one who could achieve this, but he's not wrong when he tells you how difficult it will be not to lose ground or make some sacrifices, whether in Colorado and Arizona, if the Rangers overthrow his rule. On the other hand, veteran Ranger Angela Deth ghosted on Arizona command, went against orders, and embarked on a campaign to oust the Patriarch and assassinate the man and his children to give Colorado back its freedom and justice... without considering whether this is something most Coloradans want, given the encroaching presence of half a dozen major gangs on the plains, scanning Colorado Springs for signs of weakness. Angie's heart might have been in the right place, but as General Woodson says, she's always seen things purely in black and white — there is a real possibility that without the Patriarch to hold the new nation together, Colorado will fall apart, Arizona won't get its much-needed supplies, and a lot of good people in both states will starve, freeze, or die to raider bullets or in slaver shackles. During the ending where you side with the Patriarch, you can point out that her saying she wants to save lives rings somewhat hollow in light of all the blood that's been shed on the streets of Colorado Springs and in Ranger HQ. | |
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Was Once a Man | |
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Was Once a Man: A loading screen confirms that drools — mineshaft-dwelling skinless, bile-spewing horrors with Overly Long Tongues and More Teeth than the Osmond Family — were once human, as implied by the rags and keepsakes you loot from their bodies. | |
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Gondor Calls for Aid | |
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Gondor Calls for Aid: Successfully solving Steeltown by getting Crow and Blue to join forces by freeing the Synths will lead to a coalition of the workers, the ghosts, the synths and the civilians outside the walls joining forces to defend Steeltown against Liberty's raiding party in the DLC's final battle. Unfortunately due to Redemption Demotion they will not benefit from the Level Scaling of Liberty's forces and be horribly under-leveled, meaning the Rangers will still have to do most of it themselves, but they can be a significant speed-bump and would have inflicted a Curb-Stomp Battle on the invaders if they'd kept their level-inflated stats. | |
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Pet the Dog | |
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Pet the Dog: Backstory only, but Sergei Greatski tells a story of The Patriarch staring down a house full of angry shooters... and going round back and coming back with two frightened children who'd lost their parents, bringing them back to town so they could be fed and taken care of. | |
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